Military manpower - fit for military service: males: 14,015,140 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males : 1,209,386 (1997 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $243 million (1995 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: less than 1% (1995 est.)
Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: demarcation of international boundaries in vicinity of Lake Chad, the lack of which led to border incidents in the past, is completed and awaits ratification by Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria; dispute with Cameroon over land and maritime boundaries in the vicinity of the Bakasi Peninsula has been referred to the ICJ
Illicit drugs: facilitates movement of heroin en route from Southeast and Southwest Asia to Western Europe and North America; increasingly a transit route for cocaine from South America intended for European, East Asian, and North American markets ______________________________________________________________________
NIUE
(free association with New Zealand)
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