Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 68,563 (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$10.9 million (2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
0.5% (2003)
Transnational Issues Laos
Disputes - international:
demarcation of boundaries with Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam is
largely complete, but with Thailand several areas including Mekong
River islets remain in dispute; ongoing disputes with Thailand and
Vietnam over squatters; concern among Mekong Commission members that
China's construction of dams on the Mekong River will affect water
levels
Illicit drugs:
world's third-largest illicit opium producer (estimated cultivation
in 2003 - 18,900 hectares, a 19% decrease over 2002; estimated
potential production in 2003 - 200 metric tons, a 11% increase from
2002); potential heroin producer; transshipment point for heroin and
methamphetamine produced in Burma; illicit producer of cannabis;
growing methamphetamine abuse problem
This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005
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