FEMALES REACHING MILITARY SERVICE AGE ANNUALLY IN AFRICA

• Military manpower pool describes the number of draft-age males and females eligible to enter the military in any given year and is a measure of the availability of draft-age young adults. Per capita figures are expressed per 1,000 of a country’s population. The figures in this table are for 2008.

Rank	Country	Per 1,000 population
1	Swaziland	13.93
2	Zimbabwe	13.01
3	Cape Verde	12.74
4	Zambia	12.58
5	Central African Republic	12.25
6	Botswana	12.24
7	Lesotho	12.22
8	Uganda	12.18
9	Mozambique	12.17
10	Malawi	12.13
11	Namibia	12.06
12	Tanzania	11.93
13	Togo	11.81
14	Sierra Leone	11.75
15	Democratic Republic of Congo	11.74
16	Sudan	11.68
17	Chad	11.65
18	Sao Tome and Principe	11.61
19	Congo	11.59
20	Mauritania	11.48
21	Madagascar	11.47
22	Cote d’Ivoire	11.43
23	Ghana	11.42
24	Burkina Faso	11.39
25	Burundi	11.34
26	Gambia	11.28
27	Cameroon	11.23
28	Gabon	11.15
29	Angola	11.14
30	Djibouti	11.08
31	Mali	11.07
32	Eritrea	11.02
33	Benin	11.01
34	Rwanda	11,01
35	Senegal	10.86
36	Ethiopia	10.86
37	Nigeria	10.84
38	Niger	10.80
39	Comoros	10.79
40	Kenya	10.72
41	South Africa	10.71
42	Algeria	10.69
43	Guinea	10.67
44	Equatorial Guinea	10.61
45	Morocco	9.99
46	Somalia	9.97
47	Egypt	9.62
48	Libya	9.52
49	Tunisia	9.17
50	Seychelles	9.12
51	Liberia	8.97
52	Mauritius	8.51

Source: [http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/mil_man_rea_mil_ser_age_ann_fem_age_1849-age-annually-females-18-49|http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/mil_man_rea_mil_ser_age_ann_fem_age_1849-age-annually-females-18-49


The NationMaster.com data is derived from CIA World Factbooks dating from December 18, 2003 to December 18, 2008.