Military manpower - military age: 17 years of age
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 6,295,990 (2001 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 3,272,077 (2001 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 292,589 (2001 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $44 million (FY96/97)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 0.9% (FY96/97)
Nepal Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: refugee issue over the presence in Nepal of approximately 98,700 Bhutanese refugees, 90% of whom are in seven United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) camps
Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis for the domestic and international drug markets; transit point for opiates from Southeast Asia to the West
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