Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 555,553
females age 18-49: 562,426 (2005)
Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males age 18-49: 50,156
females age 18-49: 49,746 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$220.1 million (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
17.7% (2005 est.)
Transnational Issues Eritrea
Disputes - international:
Eritrea and Ethiopia agreed to abide by 2002 Ethiopia-Eritrea
Boundary Commission's (EEBC) delimitation decision, but despite
international intervention, mutual animosities, accusations, and
armed posturing have prevented demarcation; Ethiopia refuses to
withdraw to the delimited boundary until claimed technical errors
made by the EEBC that ignored "human geography" are addressed,
including the award of Badme, the focus of the 1998-2000 war;
Eritrea insists that the EEBC decision be implemented immediately
without modifications; in 2005 Eritrea began severely restricting
the operations of the UN Peacekeeping Mission to Ethiopia and
Eritrea (UNMEE) monitoring the 25km-wide Temporary Security Zone in
Eritrea since 2000; Sudan sustains over 110,000 Eritrean refugees
and accuses Eritrea of supporting Sudanese rebel groups
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 59,000 (border war with Ethiopia from 1998-2000; most IDPs
are near the central border region) (2005)
This page was last updated on 19 December, 2006
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