Military expenditures:
1.41% of GDP
(2018)
1.44% of GDP
(2017)
1.53% of GDP
(2016)
1.69% of GDP
(2015)
2.56% of GDP
(2014)
country comparison to the world (CIA rank, may be based on non-current data):
82
[see also: Military expenditures country ranks ]
Military forces:
Central African Armed Forces (Forces Armees Centrafricaines, FACA): Ground Forces (includes Military Air Service), General Directorate of Gendarmerie Inspection (DGIG), National Police
(2019)
Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for military service; no conscription
(2019)
Military - note:
the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) has operated in the country since 2014; its peacekeeping mission includes providing security, protecting civilians, facilitating humanitarian assistance, disarming and demobilizing armed groups, and supporting the country’s fragile transitional government; as of September 2019, MINUSCA had nearly 14,000 total personnel, including about 10,800 troops; in November 2019, the UN Security Council extended the mandate of the MINUSCA peacekeeping mission another year
(2019)
