Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49 : 5,833,862 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males: 4,748,539 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 239,978 (1997 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: 164 million soms (1993); note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 3.7% (1993)
Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: none
Illicit drugs: limited illicit cultivator of cannabis and small amounts of opium poppy; mostly for domestic consumption; limited government eradication program; increasingly used as transshipment point for illicit drugs to Russia and Western Europe ______________________________________________________________________