June 1 (Reuters) - About 500 Australian combat troops pulled out of their base in southern Iraq on Sunday, fulfilling an election promise by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to bring the soldiers home this year.

Australia is the latest of a number of countries to reduce their military presence in Iraq.

The United States now has around 155,000 troops in Iraq, which will fall to 140,000 when the last of five extra brigades sent to Iraq last year, returns home in July.

Here is a table, by country, of coalition forces in Iraq.

United States 155,000

Britain 4,000

OTHER COUNTRIES:

Georgia 2,000

South Korea 933

Australia 515

Poland 900

Romania 500

El Salvador 280

Azerbaijan 150

Bulgaria 150

Mongolia 100

Czech Republic 96

Albania 70

Denmark 55

Lithuania 53

Armenia 50

Estonia 38

Bosnia-Herzegovina 37

Macedonia 33

Kazakhstan 29

Moldova 11

Portugal 7

Latvia 3

Slovakia 2

Singapore 1

NOTE: Many figures are rounded or estimated at the end of April 2008.

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Sources: Reuters/GlobalSecurity.org./Multi-National Force website/Washington Post (Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit;)

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