Military manpower-availability: males age 15-49: 1,878,453 (1998 est.)

Military manpower-fit for military service: males: 1,605,409 (1998 est.)

Military manpower-reaching military age annually: males: 40,887 (1998 est.)

Military expenditures-dollar figure: $3.2 billion (1997)

Military expenditures-percent of GDP: 1.2% (1997)

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Disputes-international: none

Illicit drugs: because of more stringent government regulations, significantly less used as a money-laundering center; transit country for and consumer of South American cocaine and Southwest Asian heroin

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