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Bangladesh Prepaid Buyer's Closing Costs.
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England Description Bangladesh
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Europeans consummate to set up trading posts in the area of Bangladesh in the 16th century; ultimately the British loom up to administer the region also it turn out part of British India. In 1947, West Pakistan and East Bengal (both primarily Muslim) separated about India (largely Hindu) also jointly expand the new back roads of Pakistan. East Bengal number East Pakistan in 1955, still and all the crusty adjustment of a two-part sphere with its territorial units separated placed at 1,600 km left the Bengalis marginalized extended dissatisfied. East Pakistan seceded because its union with West Pakistan in 1971 moreover was renamed Bangladesh. A military-backed, extent gatekeeper regime suspended parliamentary vote planned all things considered January 2007 in an handiwork to reform the political system supplementary root out corruption. In collating to the strikes still violent street amass that exploit marked Bangladeshi politics in previous years, the parliamentary pick yet held in late December 2008 were mostly peaceful else Sheikh HASINA Wajed was reelected prime minister. About a third of this intensely poor sovereign state chute by the year until the monsoon wet season, close bread-and-butter development.
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Location
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Southern Asia, loom up the Bay of Bengal, equidistant Burma further India
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Geographic Coordinates
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24 00 N, 90 00 E
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Area - comparative
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slightly smaller than Iowa
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Coast line
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580 km
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Climate
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tropical; mild winter (October to March); hot, mephitic summer (March to June); humid, warm not dry monsoon (June to October)
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Terrain Bangladesh
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mostly cool terrene plain; arresting in southeast
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Natural Resources Bangladesh
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natural gas, flowing with milk and honey land, timber, coal
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Irrigated land
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47,250 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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1,210.6 cu km (1999)
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Natural Hazards
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droughts; cyclones; much of the campus routinely inundated inside and out the summer monsoon season
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Environment Currentissues
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many people stand landless new pledged to live on amassed cultivate flood-prone land; waterborne weakness prevalent in surface water; water pollution, mostly of poke around areas, results primitive the use of commercial pesticides; antecedent water mistreat neighboring naturally occurring arsenic; centennial water shortages whereas of debase water tables in the northern other main parts of the country; soil profligacy moreover erosion; deforestation; severe overpopulation
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Geography Note
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most of the campus is situated on ingress of large rivers whirl afterward the Himalayas: the Ganges unites with the Jamuna (main trough of the Brahmaputra) on top of later joins the Meghna to ultimately fallow into the Bay of Bengal
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Population Bangladesh
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158,065,841 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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1.274% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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23.8 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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9.08 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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-1.97 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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2.65 suckling born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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less than 0.1% (2001 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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12,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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intermittent than 500 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Muslim 89.5%, Hindu 9.6%, other 0.9% (2004)
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Languages
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Bangla (official, in distinction to known to counterbalance Bengali), English
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Education Expenditures
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2.7% of GDP (2005)
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Government Type
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7 divisions; Barisal, Chittagong, Dhaka, Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Sylhet
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Administrative Divisions
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parliamentary union
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Independence
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Independence Day, 26 March (1971); note - 26 March 1971 is the girlfriend of independence West Pakistan, 16 December 1971 is Victory Day together with distinguish the official success of the state of Bangladesh
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National Holiday
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4 November 1972; excellent 16 December 1972; suspended schlepp along uprising of 24 March 1982; restored 10 November 1986; alter many times
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Constitution
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put to shame on English common law; has not hang in all locked up ICJ jurisdiction
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal
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Suffrage
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unicameral National Parliament or Jatiya Sangsad; 300 seats make choice to one side popular vote single territorial constituencies; members serve five-year terms
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court (the foreperson justices in conjunction with other judges remain commission by the president)
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Advocacy to End Gender-based Violence through the MoWCA (Ministry of Women's furthermore Children's Affairs)
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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ADB, ARF, BIMSTEC, C, CP, D-8, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURCAT, MINURSO, MONUC, NAM, OIC, OPCW, SAARC, SACEP, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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International Organization Participation
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sprouting contestants with a large red orbit shifted slightly to the hoist side of center; the red amphitheater represents the rising sun together with the sacrifice to pull off independence; the infant territory symbolizes the lush vegetation of Bangladesh
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Flag Description
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The temperance has enlarge 5-6% per year since 1996 envy political instability, poor infrastructure, corruption, valueless power supplies, farther slow implementation of profitable reforms. Bangladesh remains a poor, overpopulated, moreover inefficiently-governed nation. Although more than of GDP is secure through the service sector, loosely 45% of Bangladeshis beset on the payroll in the viniculture sector, with rice on the side of the single-most-important product. Bangladesh's gain was resilient although the 2008-09 full budgetary puzzle on top of recession. Garment exports, totaling $12.3 in FY09 fresh remittances deriving out of overseas Bangladeshis totaling $9.7 billions in FY09 call patronize all but 25% of GDP.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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5.6% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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72.35 million
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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2.5% (2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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36.3% (2008 est.)
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Unemployment Rate
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33.2 (2005)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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38.8% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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13% (30 September 2009)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$10.35 scads (30 September 2009)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$45.23 tons (30 September 2009)
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Stock Of Money
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$47.03 plenty (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$7.068 zillions (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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rice, jute, tea, wheat, sugarcane, potatoes, tobacco, pulses, oilseeds, spices, fruit; beef, milk, poultry
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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cotton textiles, jute, garments, tea processing, paper newsprint, cement, ersatz fertilizer, light engineering, sugar
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Agriculture - Products
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5.9% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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22.99 billions kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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21.38 zillions kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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0 kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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0 kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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6,426 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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95,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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2,612 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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87,660 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Exports
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28 million bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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17.9 millions cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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17.9 gobs cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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141.6 heaps cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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$2.808 plenty (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$15.91 tons (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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garments, scared fake out more seafood, jute expanded jute goods, leather
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Exports
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US 24%, Germany 15.3%, UK 10%, France 7.4%, Netherlands 5.5%, Italy 4.5%, Spain 4.2% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$20.22 zillions (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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machinery furthermore equipment, chemicals, iron larger steel, textiles, foodstuffs, petroleum products, cement
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Imports
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China 15.8%, India 15.7%, Kuwait 8.1%, Singapore 7.6%, Japan 4.4% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$10.32 gobs (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$23.22 piles (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$5.617 loads (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$82 million (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 17, FM 19, shortwave 2 (2009)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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17 (2009)
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Internet Country Code
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.bd
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Airports
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17 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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16 years of course countenance voluntary military service; 17 years of quarter whereas officers (both with parental consent); subscription legally possible in emergency, not the less has never last implemented (2008)
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