Military manpower - military age and obligation: 18 years of age for voluntary military service; volunteers at earlier age with parental consent; no conscription (2001)
Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 77,714 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 53,127 (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
NA
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
NA
Transnational Issues Barbados
Disputes - international:
Barbados intends to take its claim before UNCLOS arbitration that
the northern limit of Trinidad and Tobago's maritime boundary with
Venezuela extends into its waters; joins other Caribbean states to
counter Venezuela's claim that Aves Island sustains human
habitation, a criterion under UNCLOS, which permits Venezuela to
extend its EEZ/continental shelf over a large portion of the
Caribbean Sea
Illicit drugs:
one of many Caribbean transshipment points for narcotics bound for
Europe and the US; offshore financial center
This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005
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