| Truppenstärke - alter militärischer | 18 is the legal minimum age for compulsory and voluntary military service; the Government of South Sudan signed agreements in March 2012 and August 2015 that included the demobilization of all child soldiers within the armed forces and opposition, but the recruitment of child soldiers by the warring parties continues; as of the end of 2018, UNICEF estimated that more than 19,000 child soldiers had been used in the country's civil war since it began in December 2013 (2018) |
| Militärausgaben, Anteil am BIP | 1.33% of GDP (2018) 2.35% of GDP (2017) 4.6% of GDP (2016) 10.56% of GDP (2015) 8.62% of GDP (2014) |
Quelle: CIA World Factbook - Version Dezember 31, 2019
