Military manpower—military age: 18 years of age
Military manpower—availability:
males age 15-49: 1,478,551 (1999 est.)
Military manpower—fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 1,211,514 (1999 est.)
Military manpower—reaching military age annually:
males: 65,001 (1999 est.)
Military expenditures—dollar figure: $19.3 million (1997)
Military expenditures—percent of GDP: 1.8% (1997)
Transnational Issues
Disputes—international: most of the boundary with China in dispute; territorial dispute with Kyrgyzstan on northern boundary in Isfara Valley area
Illicit drugs: limited illicit cultivation of cannabis, mostly for domestic consumption; opium poppy cultivation negligible in 1998 because of government eradication program; increasingly used as transshipment point for illicit drugs from Southwest Asia to Russia and Western Europe
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