Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 277,931 (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$829.4 million (2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.3% (2003)
Transnational Issues Peru
Disputes - international:
Bolivia has reanimated its claim to restore the Atacama corridor
ceded to Chile and adjoining Peru in 1884 to secure sovereign
maritime assess for Bolivian natural gas
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 60,000 (civil war from 1980-2000; most IDPs are indigenous
peasants in Andean and Amazonian regions) (2004)
Illicit drugs:
until 1996 the world's largest coca leaf producer; emerging opium
producer; cultivation of coca in Peru fell 15 percent to 31,150
hectares between 2002 and the end of 2003; much of the cocaine base
is shipped to neighboring Colombia for processing into cocaine,
while finished cocaine is shipped out from Pacific ports to the
international drug market; increasing amounts of base and finished
cocaine, however, are being moved to Brazil and Bolivia for use in
the Southern Cone or transshipped to Europe and Africa
This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005
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