Gabon
Military: Gabon
Military branches:
Gabonese Defense Forces (Forces de Defense Gabonaise): Land Force (Force Terrestre), Gabonese Navy (Marine Gabonaise), Gabonese Air Forces (Forces Aerienne Gabonaises, FAG) (2012)
Military service age and obligation:
20 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2012)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 350,640
females age 16-49: 351,718 (2010 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 202,404
females age 16-49: 195,389 (2010 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 17,638
female: 17,614 (2010 est.)
Military expenditures:
country comparison to the world: 82
Transnational Issues: Gabon
Disputes - international:
UN urges Equatorial Guinea and Gabon to resolve the sovereignty dispute over Gabon-occupied Mbane Island and lesser islands and to establish a maritime boundary in hydrocarbon-rich Corisco Bay
