Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 4,058,223 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 2,790,705 (2005 est.)
Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 236,517 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$885.5 million (2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
7.8% (2003)
Military - note:
a Coast Guard was established in 2002
Transnational Issues Yemen
Disputes - international:
Yemen protests Eritrea fishing around the Hanish Islands awarded to
Yemen by the ICJ in 1999; despite resistance from nomadic groups,
the demarcation of the Saudi Arabia-Yemen boundary established under
the 2000 Jeddah Treaty is almost complete; 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 20 October, 2005