Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 20,123,970 (2003 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 1,093,752 (2003 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$4 billion (FY99)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1% (FY99)
Transnational Issues Mexico
Disputes - international: prolonged regional drought in the border region with the US has strained water-sharing arrangements
Illicit drugs:
illicit cultivation of opium poppy (cultivation in 2001 - 4,400
hectares; potential heroin production - 7 metric tons) and of
cannabis (in 2001 - 4,100 hectares); government eradication efforts
have been key in keeping illicit crop levels low; major supplier of
heroin and largest foreign supplier of marijuana and methamphetamine
to the US market; continues as the primary transshipment country for
US-bound cocaine from South America; major drug syndicates control
majority of drug trafficking throughout the country; growing
producer and distributor of ecstasy; significant money-laundering
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This page was last updated on 18 December, 2003
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