Military expenditures:
1.48% of GDP
(2018)
1.42% of GDP
(2017)
1.32% of GDP
(2016)
1.36% of GDP
(2015)
1.33% of GDP
(2014)
country comparison to the world (CIA rank, may be based on non-current data):
78
[see also: Military expenditures country ranks ]
Military forces:
Brazilian Armed Forces: Brazilian Army (Exercito Brasileiro, EB), Brazilian Navy (Marinha do Brasil, MB, includes Naval Aviation and Marine Corps (Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais)), Brazilian Air Force (Forca Aerea Brasileira, FAB); Public Security Forces
(2019)
Military service age and obligation:
18-45 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation is 10-12 months; 17-45 years of age for voluntary service; an increasing percentage of the ranks are "long-service" volunteer professionals; women were allowed to serve in the armed forces beginning in early 1980s, when the Brazilian Army became the first army in South America to accept women into career ranks; women serve in Navy and Air Force only in Women's Reserve Corps
(2012)
