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Sweden Military 2019

SOURCE: 2019 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES

Page last updated on February 08, 2019

Military expenditures:
1% of GDP (2017)
1.04% of GDP (2016)
1.09% of GDP (2015)
1.14% of GDP (2014)
1.13% of GDP (2013)
country comparison to the world: 111
[see also: Military expenditures country ranks ]

Military branches:
Swedish Armed Forces (Forsvarsmakten): Army (Armen), Royal Swedish Navy (Marinen), Swedish Air Force (Svenska Flygvapnet) (2018)

Military service age and obligation:
18-47 years of age for male and female voluntary military service; Swedish citizenship required; service obligation: 7.5 months (Army), 7-15 months (Navy), 8-12 months (Air Force); after completing initial service, soldiers have a reserve commitment until age 47; compulsory military service, abolished in 2010, was reinstated in 2018 (2018)

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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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Sweden Military 2019 SOURCE: 2019 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES