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Mauritania Military 2018

SOURCE: 2018 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES

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Page last updated on February 28, 2018

Military expenditures:
2.97% of GDP (2016) 2.75% of GDP (2015) 2.7% of GDP (2014) 2.56% of GDP (2013) 2.72% of GDP (2012)
country comparison to the world: 29
[see also: Military expenditures country ranks ]

Military branches:
Mauritanian Armed Forces: Army, Mauritanian Navy (Marine Mauritanienne; includes naval infantry), Islamic Republic of Mauritania Air Group (Groupement Aerienne Islamique de Mauritanie, GAIM) (2013)

Military service age and obligation:
18 is the legal minimum age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2012)

NOTE: 1) The information regarding Mauritania on this page is re-published from the 2018 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Mauritania Military 2018 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Mauritania Military 2018 should be addressed to the CIA.
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  a) The 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 assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order

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