Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 16,933

female: 16,942 (2009 est.)

Military expenditures:

3.4% of GDP (2005 est.) country comparison to the world: 38

Transnational Issues ::Gabon

Disputes - international:

UN urges Equatorial Guinea and Gabon to resolve the sovereignty dispute over Gabon-occupied Mbane Island and lesser islands and to establish a maritime boundary in hydrocarbon-rich Corisco Bay

Refugees and internally displaced persons:

refugees (country of origin): 7,178 (Republic of Congo) (2007)