El Salvador
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Introduction - El Salvador: | Location - El Salvador: | People - El Salvador: | Government - El Salvador: | Economy - El Salvador: | Communications - El Salvador: | Transportation - El Salvador: | Military - El Salvador: | Military branches | Salvadoran Army (ES), Salvadoran Navy (FNES), Salvadoran Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Salvadorena, FAS) (2006) | | Military service age and obligation | 18 years of age for selective compulsory military service; 16 years of age for voluntary service; 12-month service obligation (2006) | | Manpower available for military service | males age 18-49: 1,391,278
females age 18-49: 1,542,323 (2005 est.) | | Manpower fit for military service | males age 18-49: 960,315
females age 18-49: 1,310,466 (2005 est.) | | Manpower reaching military service age annually | males age 18-49: 70,286
females age 18-49: 69,526 (2005 est.) | | Military expenditures percent of gdp | 5% (2006) | | Disputes international | International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on the delimitation of bolsones (disputed areas) along the El Salvador-Honduras boundary, in 1992, with final agreement by the parties in 2006 after an Organization of American States (OAS) survey and a further ICJ ruling in 2003; the 1992 ICJ ruling advised a tripartite resolution to a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca advocating Honduran access to the Pacific; El Salvador continues to claim tiny Conejo Island, not identified in the ICJ decision, off Honduras in the Gulf of Fonseca | |
This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |