% of US pop (reserves, reserve, budget, population)

[Novadhd5150]

What do you think the percentage of the US population that is active duty or reserves right now.?

[rotwein]

About 1 to 1.5%

[Poncho_NM]

I calculate 0.5056%


Rich

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy10/pdf/appendix/mil.pdf
http://www.google.com/publicdata/exp...=us+population
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy10/pdf/appendix/mil.pdf (broken link)

[AJBarney]

Its significantly less than 1%.

[Terryj]

The U.S has a little over 3 million troops either on active duty or in the reserves. Currentley there are 1.5 million on active duty and 1.4 million on active reserves. That comes out to a little less than 1%.