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Burkina Faso Military 2019

SOURCE: 2019 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES

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Page last updated on February 08, 2019

Military expenditures:
1.23% of GDP (2016)
1.33% of GDP (2015)
1.43% of GDP (2014)
1.39% of GDP (2013)
1.32% of GDP (2012)
country comparison to the world: 94
[see also: Military expenditures country ranks ]

Military branches:
Army, Central Army Group (joint logistics command), Air Force of Burkina Faso (Force Aerienne de Burkina Faso, FABF), National Gendarmerie, National Fire Brigade (Brigade Nationale des Sapeurs-Pompiers, BNSP) (2018)

Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription; women may serve in supporting roles (2013)

NOTE: 1) The information regarding Burkina Faso on this page is re-published from the 2019 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Burkina Faso Military 2019 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Burkina Faso Military 2019 should be addressed to the CIA.
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  a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order

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