Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 14,800,821 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males : 12,315,337 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 394,362 (1997 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $47.7 billion (1995)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 2.5% (1995)
Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: Madagascar claims Bassas da India, Europa Island, Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island, and Tromelin Island; Comoros claims Mayotte; Mauritius claims Tromelin Island; Seychelles claims Tromelin Island; Suriname claims part of French Guiana; territorial claim in Antarctica (Adelie Land); Saint Pierre and Miquelon is focus of maritime boundary dispute between Canada and France; in 1992 an arbitration panel awarded the islands an exclusive economic zone area of 12,348 sq km to settle the dispute; claims Matthew and Hunter Islands east of New Caledonia
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for and consumer of South American cocaine and Southwest Asian heroin ______________________________________________________________________
FRENCH GUIANA
(overseas department of France)