Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 2,137,181 (2000 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 1,155,054 (2000 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 105,884 (2000 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $20 million (FY96)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.1% (FY96)
@Niger:Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: Libya claims about 19,400 sq km in northern
Niger; delimitation of international boundaries in the vicinity of
Lake Chad, the lack of which led to border incidents in the past, has
been completed and awaits ratification by Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and
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