Military branches:
Army, Navy, Air Force
Military service age and obligation: 18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscript service obligation - 18 months (2004)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 3,696,106 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 1,973,265 (2005 est.)
Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 189,354 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$180.2 million (2004)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.2% (2004)
Transnational Issues Cote d'Ivoire
Disputes - international:
rebel and ethnic fighting against the central government in 2002
has spilled into neighboring states, driven out foreign cocoa
workers from nearby countries, and, in 2004, resulted in 6,000
peacekeepers deployed as part of UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire
(UNOCI) assisting 4,000 French troops already in-country; the
Ivorian Government accuses Burkina Faso and Liberia of supporting
Ivorian rebels
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 71,711 (Liberia)
IDPs: 500,000 (2002 coup; most IDPs are in western regions) (2004)