Military expenditures: Military branches: Military service age and obligation:
1.18% of GDP (2016)
1.74% of GDP (2015)
1.48% of GDP (2014)
1.38% of GDP (2013)
1.51% of GDP (2012)
country comparison to the world: 99
[see also: Military expenditures country ranks ]
Armed Forces of Cote d'Ivoire (Force Armee de Cote d'Ivoire, FACI): Army, Navy, Cote d'Ivoire Air Force (Force Aerienne de la Cote d'Ivoire) (2017)
18-25 years of age for compulsory and voluntary male and female military service; conscription is not enforced; voluntary recruitment of former rebels into the new national army is restricted to ages 22-29 (2012)