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FACTBOX: Breakdown of troop numbers in Afghanistan
(Reuters) - Afghanistan meets international donors on Thursday in Paris, where President Hamid Karzai will ask for $50 billion to fund a development plan that his government has drawn up.
Here is a breakdown of current national deployments within the 40-nation NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, which according to NATO had some 52,908 troops as of June 3:
Country Troops
United States 23,550
Britain 8,530
Germany 3,370
Canada 2,500
Italy 2,350
Netherlands 1,770
France 1,670
Poland 1,140
Australia 1,100
Spain 800
Turkey 760
Denmark 690
Norway 580
Romania 570
Other countries 3,528
Note: The United States has a further 14,000 troops in Afghanistan outside the NATO force.
Source: Reuters; NATO
(www.nato.int/isaf/docu/epub/pdf/isaf_placemat.pdf)
(Compiled by Jijo Jacob; Editing by David Cutler)
