Manpower available for military service:
males age 17-49: 1,309,970 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 17-49: 1,051,425 (2005 est.)
Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 65,170 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$32.8 million (2004)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
0.7% (2004)
Transnational Issues Nicaragua
Disputes - international:
Nicaragua filed a claim against Honduras in 1999 and against
Colombia in 2001 at the ICJ over disputed maritime boundary
involving 50,000 sq km in the Caribbean Sea, including the
Archipelago de San Andres y Providencia and Quita Sueno Bank; the
1992 ICJ ruling for El Salvador and Honduras advised a tripartite
resolution to establish a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca,
which considers Honduran access to the Pacific; legal dispute over
navigational rights of San Juan River on border with Costa Rica
Illicit drugs:
transshipment point for cocaine destined for the US and
transshipment point for arms-for-drugs dealing
This page was last updated on 20 October, 2005
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