Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49 : 1,811,952 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males: 1,178,259 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 80,606 (1997 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $145 million (1996)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.9% (1996)
Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: has wanted a sovereign corridor to the South Pacific Ocean since the Atacama area was lost to Chile in 1884; dispute with Chile over Rio Lauca water rights
Illicit drugs: world's third-largest cultivator of coca (after Peru and Colombia) with an estimated 48,100 hectares under cultivation in 1996, a one percent decrease in overall cultivation of coca over 1995 levels; Bolivia, however, is the second-largest producer of coca leaf; even so, voluntary and forced eradication programs resulted in leaf production dropping from 85,000 metric tons in 1995 to 75,100 tons in 1996; government considers all but 12,000 hectares illicit; intermediate coca products and cocaine exported to or through Colombia and Brazil to the US and other international drug markets; alternative crop program aims to reduce illicit coca cultivation ______________________________________________________________________
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Introduction