Military manpower - military age and obligation: 18 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation - 2 years (2004)
Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 2,460,637 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 1,333,027 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 122,363 (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$21.7 million (2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.1% (2003)
Transnational Issues Niger
Disputes - international:
Libya claims about 25,000 sq km in a currently dormant dispute;
much of Benin-Niger boundary, including tripoint with Nigeria,
remains undemarcated, and ICJ ad hoc judges have been selected to
rule on disputed Niger and Mekrou River islands; Lake Chad
Commission continues to urge signatories Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and
Nigeria to ratify delimitation treaty over the lake region, which
remains the site of armed clashes among local populations and
militias
This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005
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