DEFENCE
Conscription is authorized for two years. Defence expenditure in 2008 totalled US$20m. (US$7 per capita), representing 0ยท7% of GDP.
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Table of contents
- MAURITANIA
- KEY HISTORICAL EVENTS
- PAST LEADERS SINCE 1945
- TERRITORY AND POPULATION
- CITY PROFILES
- SOCIAL STATISTICS
- CLIMATE
- CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT
- RECENT ELECTIONS
- CURRENT GOVERNMENT
- CURRENT LEADERS
- DEFENCE
- ECONOMY
- ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
- INDUSTRY
- INTERNATIONAL TRADE
- COMMUNICATIONS
- SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
- RELIGION
- CULTURE
- DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVES
- FURTHER READING
