Branches: Popular Armed Forces (including Intervention Forces, Development Forces, Aeronaval Forces - including Navy and Air Force), Gendarmerie, Presidential Security Regiment

Manpower availability: males age 15-49 2,924,829; fit for military service 1,739,830; reach military age (20) annually 124,652 (1994 est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $37 million, 2.2% of GDP (1991 est.)

NOTE: The information regarding Madagascar on this page is re-published from the 1995 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Madagascar Defense Forces 1995 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Madagascar Defense Forces 1995 should be addressed to the CIA.