Military manpower—military age: 18 years of age
Military manpower—availability:
males age 15-49: 6,172,436 (1999 est.)
Military manpower—fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 5,012,944 (1999 est.)
Military manpower—reaching military age annually:
males: 254,114 (1999 est.)
Military expenditures—dollar figure: $200 million (1997)
Military expenditures—percent of GDP: 1.4% (1997)
Transnational Issues
Disputes—international: none
Illicit drugs: limited illicit cultivation of cannabis and very small amounts of opium poppy, mostly for domestic consumption, almost entirely eradicated by an effective government eradication program; increasingly used as transshipment point for illicit drugs from Afghanistan to Russia and Western Europe and for acetic anhydride destined for Afghanistan
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