Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 7,422,869 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 3,879,630 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$21.2 million (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
0.2% (2005 est.)
Transnational Issues Tanzania
Disputes - international:
Tanzania still hosts more than a half-million refugees, more than
any other African country, mainly from Burundi and the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, despite the international community's efforts
at repatriation; disputes with Malawi over the boundary in Lake
Nyasa (Lake Malawi) and the meandering Songwe River remain dormant
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 393,611 (Burundi), 150,112
(Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2006)
Illicit drugs:
growing role in transshipment of Southwest and Southeast Asian
heroin and South American cocaine destined for South African,
European, and US markets and of South Asian methaqualone bound for
southern Africa; money laundering remains a problem
This page was last updated on 8 February, 2007
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