18 years of age
for compulsory military service; 20 years of age for voluntary
military service (2001)
Military manpower - availability:
males age
18-49: 2,664,572 (2005 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age
18-49: 1,323,548 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$64.2 million
(2004)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.3% (2004)
Transnational Issues
Burkina Faso
Disputes - international:
two villages are
in dispute along the border with Benin; Benin accuses Burkina
Faso of moving boundary pillars; Burkina Faso border regions
remain a staging area for Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire rebels and
an asylum for refugees caught in local fighting; the Ivoirian
Government accuses Burkina Faso of sheltering Ivoirian rebels