| Military branches | People's Revolutionary Armed Force (FARP): Army, Navy, Air Force; Guard Nacional (a gendarmerie force under the Ministry of Internal Administration) (2021) |
| Military service age and obligation | 18-25 years of age for selective compulsory military service (Air Force service is voluntary); 16 years of age or younger, with parental consent, for voluntary service (2019) |
| Military expenditures - percent of GDP | 1.4% of GDP (2017) 1.3% of GDP (2016) 1.6% of GDP (2015) 2% of GDP (2014) 2.1% of GDP (2013) |
| Military and security service personnel strengths | the People's Revolutionary Armed Force (FARP) has approximately 4,000 total active troops, including about 300 Navy and 100 Air Force (2020) |
| Military equipment inventories and acquisitions | the FARP is poorly armed with an inventory consisting of Soviet-era equipment, much of which is reportedly unserviceable; the only reported deliveries of military equipment to since 2015 were patrol boats from Spain in 2017 and non-lethal equipment from China in 2015; Guinea-Bissau has also discussed acquiring military equipment with Indonesia (2020) |
Source: CIA World Factbook
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