Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 1,123,934 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males: 606,542 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males : 54,712 (1997 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $105 million (FY92/93)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 8.1% (FY92/93)
Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: boundary dispute with Thailand
Illicit drugs: world's third largest opium producer (200 metric tons from some 25,250 hectares in 1996); heroin producer; increasingly used as transshipment point for heroin produced in Burma; illicit producer of cannabis ______________________________________________________________________