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MAGENTA Gold

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Figure 30, HIV Prevalence Among Male Military Applicants, by Age
Group, 1993–1997
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/hivprevalence/figure.htm

Καλησπέρα, Ευτυχία. Το βρίσκω και ως \"conscript age-group\" που θαρρώ πως είναι ορθότερο.

The United States Department of Defense estimated that North Korea had a million troops under arms for most of the 1980s, although P\'yongyang regularly claimed that it maintained its armed forces at around 400,000 persons (see fig. 14). Given the closed nature of North Korean society, there was little publicly available evidence to validate either claim until the research conducted in 1991 by Nicholas Eberstadt and Judith Banister at the Harvard University Center for Population and Development Studies. Their estimates, derived from DPRK population data given to the UN, suggest that the number of males in the North Korean armed forces had increased from at least 740,000 in 1975 to over 900,000 in 1980 and 1.2 million in 1986. The estimates also suggest that more than one out of every five North Korean men between the ages of sixteen and fifty-four was in the military as of 1986. If all military men are of the ages conscripts were thought to serve, that is, ages seventeen to twenty-six, they would constitute almost half the age group. The armed forces would have accounted for at least 12 percent of the entire male population and at least 6 percent of the total population. As a result of estimated decreases in that age group over the 1990s, the same size military force will constitute 59 percent of the conscript age group in the year 2000, and 57 percent in 2005.

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