Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 1,370,116 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males: 816,054 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males : 66,304 (1997 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $42.5 million (1997)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: about 1.5% (1997)
Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: land boundary dispute with El Salvador mostly resolved by 11 September 1992 International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision; with respect to the maritime boundary in the Golfo de Fonseca, ICJ referred to an earlier agreement in this century and advised that some tripartite resolution among El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua likely would be required; maritime boundary dispute with Nicaragua
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for drugs and narcotics; illicit producer of cannabis, cultivated on small plots and used principally for local consumption ______________________________________________________________________