Military manpower-fit for military service: males: 154,925,081 (1998 est.)
Military manpower-reaching military age annually: males: 10,566,718 (1998 est.)
Military expenditures-dollar figure: $8 billion (FY95/96)
Military expenditures-percent of GDP: 2.7% (FY95/96)
@India:Transnational Issues
Disputes-international: boundary with China in dispute; status of
Kashmir with Pakistan; water-sharing problems with Pakistan over the
Indus River (Wular Barrage); a portion of the boundary with Bangladesh
is indefinite
Illicit drugs: world's largest licit producer of opium for the pharmaceutical trade, but an undetermined quantity of opium is diverted to illicit international drug markets; major transit country for illicit narcotics produced in neighboring countries; illicit producer of hashish and methaqualone; cultivated 2,050 hectares of opium in 1997, a 34% decrease from 1996, with a potential production of 30 metric tons, a 36% decrease from 1996
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INDIAN OCEAN
@Indian Ocean:Geography