Belize
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Introduction - Belize: | Location - Belize: | People - Belize: | Government - Belize: | Economy - Belize: | Communications - Belize: | Transportation - Belize: | Military - Belize: | Military branches | Belize Defense Force (BDF): Army, Maritime Wing, Air Wing, and Volunteer Guard | | Military service age and obligation | 18 years of age for voluntary military service; laws allow for conscription only if volunteers are insufficient; conscription has never been implemented; volunteers typically outnumber available positions by 3:1 (2001) | | Manpower available for military service | males age 18-49: 61,201
females age 18-49: 60,048 (2005 est.) | | Manpower fit for military service | males age 18-49: 44,238
females age 18-49: 43,633 (2005 est.) | | Manpower reaching military service age annually | males age 18-49: 3,213
females age 18-49: 3,100 (2005 est.) | | Military expenditures percent of gdp | 1.4% (2006) | | Disputes international | annual ministerial meetings under the OAS-initiated Agreement on the Framework for Negotiations and Confidence Building Measures continue to address Guatemalan land and maritime claims in Belize and Caribbean Sea; the Line of Adjacency created under the 2002 Differendum serves in lieu of the contiguous international boundary to control squatting in the sparsely inhabited rain forests of Belizes border region; Honduras claims Belizean-administered Sapodilla Cays in its constitution but agreed to a joint ecological park under the Differendum | |
This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |