females age 16-49: 954,663 (2009 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 33,018

female: 31,800 (2009 est.)

Military expenditures:

3.1% of GDP (2005 est.) country comparison to the world: 45

Transnational Issues ::Lebanon

Disputes - international:

lacking a treaty or other documentation describing the boundary, portions of the Lebanon-Syria boundary are unclear with several sections in dispute; since 2000, Lebanon has claimed Shab'a Farms area in the 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: