Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 1,399,356 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 858,022 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 61,869 (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$30.8 million (2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.2% (2003)
Transnational Issues Nicaragua
Disputes - international:
territorial disputes with Colombia over the Archipelago de San
Andres y Providencia and Quita Sueno Bank region; the 1992 ICJ
ruling for El Salvador and Honduras advised a tripartite resolution
to establish a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca, which
considers Honduran access to the Pacific; legal dispute over
navigational rights of San Juan River on border with Costa Rica
Illicit drugs:
transshipment point for cocaine destined for the US and
transshipment point for arms-for-drugs dealing
This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005
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