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Introduction - Guatemala: | Location - Guatemala: | People - Guatemala: | Government - Guatemala: | Economy - Guatemala: | Communications - Guatemala: | Transportation - Guatemala: | Military - Guatemala: | Military branches | Army, Navy (includes Marines), Air Force | | Military service age and obligation | all male citizens between the ages of 18 and 50 are liable for military service; conscript service obligation varies from 12 to 24 months (2005) | | Manpower available for military service | males age 18-49: 2,429,033
females age 18-49: 2,503,482 (2005 est.) | | Manpower fit for military service | males age 18-49: 1,911,412
females age 18-49: 2,070,806 (2005 est.) | | Manpower reaching military service age annually | males age 18-49: 134,032
females age 18-49: 130,641 (2005 est.) | | Refugees and internally displaced persons | IDPs: undetermined (estimates vary from none to 1 million displaced from governments scorched-earth offensive in 1980s against indigenous people) (2006) | | Military expenditures percent of gdp | 0.4% (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 the 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; Mexico must deal with thousands of impoverished Guatemalans and other Central Americans who cross the porous border looking for work in Mexico and the United States | |
This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |