Military manpower - military age: 17 years of age
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 258,172,895 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males : 151,693,072 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 10,465,427 (1997 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $8 billion (FY95/96)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 2.7% (FY95/96)
Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: boundaries with Bangladesh and China in dispute; status of Kashmir with Pakistan; water-sharing problems with downstream riparian Pakistan over the Indus (Wular Barrage); Bangladesh and India signed a treaty 12 December 1996 to share water from the Ganges
Illicit drugs: world's largest licit producer of opium for the pharmaceutical trade, but an undetermined quantity of opium is diverted to illicit international drug markets; major transit country for illicit narcotics produced in neighboring countries; illicit producer of hashish and methaqualone; produced 47 metric tons of illicit opium in 1996 ______________________________________________________________________
INDIAN OCEAN
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