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Introduction - Brazil: | Location - Brazil: | People - Brazil: | Government - Brazil: | Economy - Brazil: | Communications - Brazil: | Transportation - Brazil: | Military - Brazil: | Military branches | Brazilian Army, Brazilian Navy (Marinha do Brasil (MB), includes Naval Air and Marine Corps (Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais)), Brazilian Air Force (Forca Aerea Brasileira, FAB) (2007) | | Military service age and obligation | 21-45 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation - 9 to 12 months; 17-45 years of age for voluntary service; an increasing percentage of the ranks are long-service volunteer professionals; women were allowed to serve in the armed forces beginning in early 1980s when the Brazilian Army became the first army in South America to accept women into career ranks; women serve in Navy and Air Force only in Womens Reserve Corps (2001) | | Manpower available for military service | males age 19-49: 45,586,036
females age 19-49: 45,728,704 (2005 est.) | | Manpower fit for military service | males age 19-49: 33,119,098
females age 19-49: 38,079,722 (2005 est.) | | Manpower reaching military service age annually | males age 18-49: 1,785,930
females age 19-49: 1,731,648 (2005 est.) | | Military expenditures percent of gdp | 2.6% (2006 est.) | | Disputes international | unruly region at convergence of Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay borders is locus of money laundering, smuggling, arms and illegal narcotics trafficking, and fundraising for extremist organizations; uncontested dispute with Uruguay over certain islands in the Quarai/Cuareim and Invernada boundary streams and the resulting tripoint with Argentina | |
This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |