Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 174,065 female: 168,593 (2008 est.)
Military expenditures:
2.6% of GDP (2006)
Transnational Issues
Sri Lanka
Disputes - international:
none
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 460,000 (both Tamils and non-Tamils displaced due to long-term civil war between the government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)) (2007)
Trafficking in persons: