Military manpower - military age: 20 years of age
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 3,296,678 (2000 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 2,224,033 (2000 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 130,869 (2000 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $720 million (FY98)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 3.4% (FY98)
@Ecuador:Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: demarcation of the agreed-upon border with
Peru was completed in May 1999
Illicit drugs: significant transit country for cocaine and derivatives of coca originating in Colombia and Peru; importer of precursor chemicals used in production of illicit narcotics; important money-laundering hub; increased activity on frontiers by trafficking groups and Colombian insurgents
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