> Robert Naiman wrote: > >>So how does the U.S. look compared to other OECD countries if you count > >>institutionalized adults as part of the population? Can one also account > >>for the role of the military? > > Doug gave us the figures on incarceration, but what about the military? I > remember reading somewhere that about 1 million people are employed by the > US armed forces. Is that correct? > Yoshie 1 million figure has been pretty consistent since onset of Cold War... number has declined a bit in recent years and is the lowest it has been since 1950..there are currently about 830,000 (almost 30% of present total) civilian employees of the federal gov't working for Defense Dept (called War Dept. until 1944)...in addition, some 260,000 work for Veterans Affairs Dept, a number comparable to all federal agencies associated with social and welfare activities combined... current number of uniformed military personnel is about 1.5 million, also the lowest figure since 1950... Michael Hoover
