Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 305,603 (2003 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 158,226 (2003 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 12,853 (2003 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$81.9 million (FY02)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
2% (FY02)

Transnational Issues Gabon

Disputes - international:
creation of a maritime boundary in hydrocarbon-rich Corisco Bay
with Equatorial Guinea is hampered by dispute over small islets on
Mbane/Mbagne bank, administered and occupied by Gabon since the 1970s

This page was last updated on 18 December, 2003

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