Military branches:
Army (Ejercito Boliviano), Navy (Fuerza Naval, includes Marines),
Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Boliviana), National Police Force (Policia
Nacional de Bolivia)
Military manpower - military age:
19 years of age (2003 est.)
Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 2,118,908 (2003 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 1,380,883 (2003 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 96,003 (2003 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$147 million (FY99)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.8% (FY99)
Transnational Issues Bolivia
Disputes - international:
continues to press Chile and Peru to restore the Atacama corridor
ceded to Chile in 1884; Chile demands water rights to Bolivia's Rio
Lauca and Silala Spring
Illicit drugs:
world's third-largest cultivator of coca (after Colombia and Peru)
with an estimated 24,400 hectares under cultivation in June 2002, a
23% increase from June 2001; intermediate coca products and cocaine
exported to or through Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile to the
US and other international drug markets; eradication and alternative
crop programs under the SANCHEZ DE LOZADA administration have been
unable to keep pace with farmers' attempts to increase cultivation
after significant reductions in 1998 and 1999; money-laundering
activity related to narcotics trade, especially along the borders
with Brazil and Paraguay