Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 1,762,730 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 1,444,325 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 86,761 (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$35.4 million (FY01)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
3.9% (FY01)
Transnational Issues Tajikistan
Disputes - international:
prolonged regional drought created water-sharing difficulties for
Amu Darya river states; boundary agreements signed in 2002 cede
1,000 sq km of Pamir Mountain range to China in return for China
relinquishing claims to 28,000 sq km of Tajikistani lands but
demarcation has not yet commenced; talks continue with Uzbekistan to
delimit border and remove minefields; disputes in Isfara Valley
delay delimitation with Kyrgyzstan
Illicit drugs:
major transit country for Afghan narcotics bound for Russian and,
to a lesser extent, Western European markets; limited illicit
cultivation of opium poppy for domestic consumption; Tajikistan
seizes roughly 80 percent of all drugs captured in Central Asia and
stands third world-wide in seizures of opiates (heroin and raw opium)
This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005
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