Bhutan:
Military & Transnational Issues


Military branches	Definition Royal Bhutan Army (includes Royal Bodyguard and Royal Bhutan Police) (2008)
Military service age and obligation	Definition 18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2008)
Manpower available for military service	Definition males age 16-49: 190,104 females age 16-49: 167,289 (2008 est.)
Manpower fit for military service	Definition - World rank and map males age 16-49: 146,063 females age 16-49: 131,193 (2008 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually	Definition males age 16-49: 7,847 females age 16-49: 7,530 (2008 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP	Definition - World rank and map 1% (2005 est.)

Disputes - international	Definition Bhutan cooperates with India to expel Indian Nagaland separatists; lacking any treaty describing the boundary, Bhutan and China continue negotiations to establish a common boundary alignment to resolve territorial disputes arising from substantial cartographic discrepancies, the largest of which lie in Bhutan's northwest and along the Chumbi salient