Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 2,590,720 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 255,426 (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$885.6 million (2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
7.9% (2003)
Military - note:
establishment of a Coast Guard, scheduled for May 2001, has been
delayed
Transnational Issues Yemen
Disputes - international:
Yemen protests Eritrea fishing around the Hanish Islands awarded to
Yemen by the ICJ in 1999; nomadic groups in border region with Saudi
Arabia resist demarcation of boundary in accordance wih 2000 Jeddah
Treaty; Yemen protests Saudi erection of a concrete-filled pipe as a
security barrier in 2004 to stem illegal cross-border activities in
sections of the boundary
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 60,901 (Somalia) (2004)
This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005
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