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Bhutan:
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Other pages in this profile of Bhutan:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications & Transportation,
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications & Transportation,
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Military branches |
Royal Bhutan Army: Royal Bodyguard, Royal Bhutan Police (2005) |
Military service age and obligation |
18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2001) |
Manpower available for military service |
males age 18-49: 483,860 females age 18-49: 453,683 (2005 est.) |
Manpower fit for military service |
males age 18-49: 314,975 females age 18-49: 296,833 (2005 est.) |
Manpower reaching military age annually |
males age 18-49: 23,939 females age 18-49: 21,979 (2005 est.) |
Military expenditures - percent of GDP |
1% (2005 est.) |
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Disputes - international |
over 100,000 Bhutanese Lhotshampas (Hindus) have been confined in seven UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees camps since 1990; Bhutan cooperates with India to expel Indian Nagaland separatists; lacking any treaty describing the boundary, Bhutan and China continue negotiations to establish a boundary alignment to resolve substantial cartographic discrepancies, the largest of which lies in Bhutan's northwest |
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