Military manpower-availability: males age 15-49: 20,915,978 (1998 est.)
Military manpower-fit for military service: males: 17,888,396 (1998 est.)
Military manpower-reaching military age annually: males: 465,179 (1998 est.)
Military expenditures-dollar figure: $42.8 billion (1995)
Military expenditures-percent of GDP: 1.5% (1995)
@Germany:Transnational Issues
Disputes-international: individual Sudeten German claims for restitution of property confiscated in connection with their expulsion after World War II
Illicit drugs: source of precursor chemicals for South American
cocaine processors; transshipment point for and consumer of Southwest
Asian heroin and hashish, Latin American cocaine, and
European-produced synthetic drugs
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