Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 97,429 (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$25.8 million (2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
0.9% (2003)
Transnational Issues Haiti
Disputes - international:
despite efforts to control illegal migration, Haitians fleeing
economic privation and civil unrest continue to cross into Dominican
Republic and to sail to neighboring countries; Haiti claims
US-administered Navassa Island
Illicit drugs:
major Caribbean transshipment point for cocaine en route to the US
and Europe; substantial money-laundering activity; Colombian
narcotics traffickers favor Haiti for illicit financial
transactions; pervasive corruption
This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005
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