Military branches:
Army, Navy (includes Marines), Air Force
Military service age and obligation: 18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscript service obligation - 30 months (2004)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 3,020,292 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 2,106,847 (2005 est.)
Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 161,964 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$201.9 million (2004)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
0.8% (2003)
Transnational Issues Guatemala
Disputes - international:
Guatemalan squatters continue to settle in the rain forests of
Belize's border region; OAS is attempting to revive the 2002 failed
Differendum that created a small adjustment to land boundary, a
Guatemalan maritime corridor in Caribbean, a joint ecological park
for the disputed Sapodilla Cays, and a substantial US-UK financial
package; Guatemalans enter Mexico illegally seeking work or transit
to the US
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 250,000 (government's scorched-earth offensive in 1980s
against indigenous people) (2004)