Military branches: Army, Navy (includes Marines), Air Force, Public Security Forces (FUSEP, now being converted to a civilian police force)
Military manpower-military age: 18 years of age
Military manpower-availability: males age 15-49: 1,409,012 (1998 est.)
Military manpower-fit for military service: males: 839,283 (1998 est.)
Military manpower-reaching military age annually: males: 68,076 (1998 est.)
Military expenditures-dollar figure: $42.5 million (1997)
Military expenditures-percent of GDP: about 1.5% (1997)
@Honduras:Transnational Issues
Disputes-international: land boundary dispute with El Salvador mostly resolved by 11 September 1992 International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision; the presidents of El Salvador and Honduras signed in January 1998 an agreement allowing citizens in the 1992 demarcated areas to choose Salvadoran or Honduran citizenship; the two countries also agreed to a final demarcation of the border within one year; the agreement awaits ratification by the legislative assemblies of both countries; with respect to the maritime boundary in the Golfo de Fonseca, ICJ referred to an earlier agreement in this century and advised that some tripartite resolution among El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua likely would be required; maritime boundary dispute with Nicaragua
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for drugs and narcotics, mostly along the Caribbean coastline; illicit producer of cannabis, cultivated on small plots and used principally for local consumption