Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 110,888 (2003 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 63,966 (2003 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 3,277 (2003 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$329.7 million (FY02)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
5% (FY02)
Transnational Issues Brunei
Disputes - international:
Involved in dispute over the Spratly Islands with China, Malaysia,
Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam; Brunei established an exclusive
economic fishing zone encompassing Louisa Reef in southern Spratly
Islands in 1984 but makes no public territorial claim to the
offshore reefs; claimants in November 2002 signed the "Declaration
on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea", a mechanism to
ease tension but which fell short of a legally binding "code of
conduct"
Illicit drugs:
drug trafficking and illegally importing controlled substances are
serious offenses in Brunei and carry a mandatory death penalty
This page was last updated on 18 December, 2003
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