Military manpower-availability: males age 15-49: 17,350,925 (1998 est.)
Military manpower-fit for military service: males: 11,247,896 (1998 est.)
Military manpower-reaching military age annually: males: 683,868 (1998 est.)
Military expenditures-dollar figure: $3.28 billion (FY95/96)
Military expenditures-percent of GDP: 8.2% (FY95/96)
@Egypt:Transnational Issues
Disputes-international: administrative boundary with Sudan does not coincide with international boundary creating the "Hala'ib Triangle," a barren area of 20,580 sq km
Illicit drugs: a transit point for Southwest Asian and Southeast Asian heroin and opium moving to Europe and the US; popular transit stop for Nigerian couriers; large domestic consumption of hashish from Lebanon and Syria
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