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Jordan Military 2020

SOURCE: 2020 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Jordan Military 2020
SOURCE: 2020 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on January 27, 2020

Military expenditures:
4.68% of GDP (2018)
4.8% of GDP (2017)
4.58% of GDP (2016)
4.31% of GDP (2015)
4.32% of GDP (2014)
country comparison to the world (CIA rank, may be based on non-current data): 7
[see also: Military expenditures country ranks ]

Military forces:
Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF): Royal Jordanian Army (includes Special Operations Forces, Border Guards, Royal Guard), Royal Jordanian Navy, Royal Jordanian Air Force; Ministry of Interior: General Directorate of Gendarmerie Forces, Public Security Directorate (2019)

Military service age and obligation:
17 years of age for voluntary male military service; initial service term 2 years, with option to reenlist for 18 years; conscription at age 18 suspended in 1999; women are not conscripted, but can volunteer to serve in noncombat military positions in the Royal Jordanian Arab Army Women's Corps and RJAF (2013)


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Jordan on this page is re-published from the 2020 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Jordan Military 2020 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Jordan Military 2020 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may have the following issues:
  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 assigns counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order.






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