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Military branches:
Army: 980,000 troops
Navy, including naval air arm: 55,000 troops
Air Force:: 110,000
Various security or paramilitary forces, including Jammu/Kashmir Border Security Force, Assam Rifles and Rashtriya Rifles: 185,000


Primary military equipment
Military expenditures: $10 billion, fiscal year 2000
Military expenditures -- percent of gross domestic product: 2.5 percent, fiscal year 2000

Military manpower
Age of service: 17
Military manpower -- availability: Males ages 15-49, 274,679,455; 2000 estimate
Military manpower -- fit for military service: Males aged 15-49, 161,223,332; 2000 estimate
Military manpower -- reaching military age annually: Males, 0,759,607; 2000 estimate