Military expenditures: Military branches: Military service age and obligation: Maritime threats:
0.43% of GDP (2016)
0.42% of GDP (2015)
0.41% of GDP (2014)
0.47% of GDP (2013)
0.5% of GDP (2012)
country comparison to the world: 146
[see also: Military expenditures country ranks ]
Nigerian Armed Forces: Army, Navy, Air Force (2013)
18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2012)
the International Maritime Bureau reports the territorial and offshore waters in the Niger Delta and Gulf of Guinea as high risk for piracy and armed robbery of ships; in 2016, 36 commercial vessels were boarded or attacked compared with 14 attacks in 2015; in the first half of 2017, 31 crew members were abducted in five reported incidents; half of all reports of vessels being fired upon occur in Nigerian waters; Nigerian pirates have extended the range of their attacks to as far away as Cote d'Ivoire and as far as 100 nm offshore
Nigeria Military 2018
SOURCE: 2018 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES
