Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 6,484,343 (2002 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 3,369,454 (2002 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 292,589 (2002 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $51.5 million (FY01)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1% (FY01)
Transnational Issues Nepal
Disputes - international: formed Joint Border committee with India in 2001 to resolve 53 disputed sections of boundary covering an area of 720 sq km; approximately 100,000 Bhutanese refugees living in Nepal, 90% of whom reside in seven UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees camps, place decades-long strains on Nepal
Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis for the domestic and international drug markets; transit point for opiates from Southeast Asia to the West
This page was last updated on 1 January 2002
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