Military manpower—fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 356,825 (1999 est.)

Military expenditures—dollar figure: $1.4 million (1998)

Military expenditures—percent of GDP: 2% (1998)

Transnational Issues

Disputes—international: none

Illicit drugs: increasingly a transshipment point for Southeast and Southwest Asian heroin and South American cocaine for the European and US markets

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Geography

Location: Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Egypt and Tunisia