Military service age and obligation:
18-30 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service;
conscript service obligation - 12 months (2004)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 974,363
females age 18-49: 1,024,273 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 821,762
females age 18-49: 865,770 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$540.6 million (2004)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
3.1% (2004)
Transnational Issues Lebanon
Disputes - international:
Lebanese Government claims Shab'a Farms area of Israeli-occupied
Golan Heights; the roughly 2,000-strong UN Interim Force in Lebanon
(UNIFIL) has been in place since 1978
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 404,170 (Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA))
IDPs: 300,000 (1975-90 civil war, Israeli invasions) (2005)
Illicit drugs:
cannabis cultivation dramatically reduced to 2,500 hectares in
2002; opium poppy cultivation minimal; small amounts of Latin
American cocaine and Southwest Asian heroin transit country on way
to European markets and for Middle Eastern consumption
This page was last updated on 19 December, 2006