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Dominican Republic:
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Other pages in this profile of the Dominican Republic:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications & Transportation,
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications & Transportation,
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Military branches |
Definition Army, Navy, Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Dominicana, FAD) (2007) |
Military service age and obligation |
Definition 18 years of age for voluntary military service (2007) |
Manpower available for military service |
Definition males age 16-49: 2,440,203 females age 16-49: 2,326,694 (2008 est.) |
Manpower fit for military service |
Definition - World rank and map males age 16-49: 2,020,490 females age 16-49: 1,883,875 (2008 est.) |
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually |
Definition males age 16-49: 96,971 females age 16-49: 93,116 (2008 est.) |
Military expenditures - percent of GDP |
Definition - World rank and map 0.8% (2006) |
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Disputes - international |
Definition Haitian migrants cross the porous border into the Dominican Republic to find work; illegal migrants from the Dominican Republic cross the Mona Passage each year to Puerto Rico to find better work |
Trafficking in persons |
Definition current situation: the Dominican Republic is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor; a large number of Dominican women are trafficked into prostitution and sexual exploitation in Western Europe, Australia, Central and South America, and Caribbean destinations; a significant number of women, boys, and girls are trafficked within the country for sexual exploitation and domestic servitude tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - for a second consecutive year, the Dominican Republic is on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to show evidence of increasing efforts to combat human trafficking, particularly in terms of not adequately investigating and prosecuting public officials who may be complicit with trafficking activity, and inadequate government efforts to protect trafficking victims; the government has taken measures to reduce demand for commercial sex acts with children through criminal prosecutions (2008) |
Illicit drugs |
Definition transshipment point for South American drugs destined for the US and Europe; has become a transshipment point for ecstasy from the Netherlands and Belgium destined for US and Canada; substantial money laundering activity; Colombian narcotics traffickers favor the Dominican Republic for illicit financial transactions; significant amphetamine consumption |
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