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Afghanistan:
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Other pages in this profile of Afghanistan:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications & Transportation,
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications & Transportation,
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Military branches |
Afghan National Army (includes Afghan Air Force) (2006) |
Military service age and obligation |
22 years of age; inductees are contracted into service for a 4-year term (2005) |
Manpower available for military service |
males age 22-49: 4,952,812 females age 22-49: 4,663,963 (2005 est.) |
Manpower fit for military service |
males age 22-49: 2,662,946 females age 22-49: 2,508,574 (2005 est.) |
Manpower reaching military age annually |
males age 18-49: 275,362 females age 22-49: 259,935 (2005 est.) |
Military expenditures - percent of GDP |
1.9% (2006 est.) |
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Disputes - international |
Pakistan, with UN and other international assistance, repatriated 2.3 million Afghan refugees with less than a million still remaining, many at their own choosing; Pakistan has proposed and Afghanistan protests construction of a fence and laying of mines along portions of their border; Coalition and Pakistani forces continue to monitor remote tribal areas to control the border with Afghanistan and stem terrorist and other illegal activities |
Refugees and internally displaced persons |
IDPs: 136,565 (mostly Pashtuns and Kuchis displaced in south and west due to drought and instability) (2006) |
Illicit drugs |
world's largest producer of opium; cultivation dropped 48% to 107,400 hectares in 2005; better weather and lack of widespread disease returned opium yields to normal levels, meaning potential opium production declined by only 10% to 4,475 metric tons; if the entire poppy crop were processed, it is estimated that 526 metric tons of heroin could be processed; many narcotics-processing labs throughout the country; drug trade is a source of instability and some antigovernment groups profit from the trade; significant domestic use of opiates; 80-90% of the heroin consumed in Europe comes from Afghan opium; vulnerable to narcotics money laundering through informal financial networks; source of hashish |
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