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Tonga Military 2012

SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Tonga Military 2012
SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on February 8,

Military branches:
Tonga Defense Services (TDS): Land Force (Royal Guard), Maritime Force (includes Royal Marines, Air Wing) (2010)

Military service age and obligation:
16 years of age for voluntary enlistment (with parental consent); no conscription (2010)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 24,460
[see also: Manpower available for military service - male country ranks ]
females age 16-49: 24,041 (2010 est.)
[see also: Manpower available for military service - female country ranks ]

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 20,956
[see also: Manpower fit for military service - male country ranks ]
females age 16-49: 20,577 (2010 est.)
[see also: Manpower fit for military service - female country ranks ]

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 1,196
[see also: Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually - male country ranks ]
female: 1,134 (2010 est.)
[see also: Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually - female country ranks ]

Military expenditures:
0.9% of GDP (2006 est.)
country comparison to the world: 134
[see also: Military expenditures country ranks ]


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Tonga on this page is re-published from the 2012 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Tonga Military 2012 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Tonga Military 2012 should be addressed to the CIA.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe 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 assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order






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