Military branches: Army, Air Force, Gendarmerie, National Intervention and Security Force
Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age (2002 est.)
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 2,270,793 (2002 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 1,227,994 (2002 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 108,993 (2002 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $20.9 million (FY01)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.3% (FY01)
Transnational Issues Niger
Disputes - international: Niger and Benin have refered to the ICJ the dispute over l'Ete and 14 smaller islands in the Niger River, which has never been delimited; the Benin-Niger-Nigeria tripoint remains undemarcated; Lake Chad Basin Commission urges signatories Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria to ratify delimitation treaty over lake region, the site of continuing armed clashes; Libya claims about 19,400 sq km in northern Niger in a currently dormant dispute
This page was last updated on 1 January 2002