Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for compulsory military service; national service
obligation - 12 months (2004)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 1,066,459
females age 18-49: 1,117,070 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 693,913
females age 18-49: 911,568 (2005 est.)
Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males age 18-49: 43,729
females age 18-49: 42,354 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$8.7 million (2004)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
0.4% (FY02)
Transnational Issues Moldova
Disputes - international:
Moldova and Ukraine have established joint customs posts to monitor
transit through Moldova's break-away Transnistria region which
remains under OSCE supervision
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 1,000 (internal secessionist uprising in Transnistrian region
in 1991) (2005)
Illicit drugs:
limited cultivation of opium poppy and cannabis, mostly for CIS
consumption; transshipment point for illicit drugs from Southwest
Asia via Central Asia to Russia, Western Europe, and possibly the
US; widespread crime and underground economic activity