Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 4,944,952 (2002 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 276,458 (2002 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $1 billion (FY01)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.8% (FY01)
Transnational Issues Peru
Disputes - international: dispute with Chile over the economic zone delimited by the maritime boundary; Colombian drug activities penetrate Peruvian border area
Illicit drugs: until 1996 the world's largest coca leaf producer; emerging opium producer; Peru reduced the area of coca under cultivation by 64% to 34,000 hectares between 1996 and the end of 2001; much of the cocaine base is shipped to neighboring Colombia for processing into cocaine, while finished cocaine is shipped out from Pacific ports to the international drug market; increasing amounts of base and finished cocaine, however, are being moved to Brazil and Bolivia for use in the Southern Cone or transshipped to Europe and Africa
This page was last updated on 1 January 2002
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