total: 67,000 km
paved: 7,705 km
unpaved: 59,295 km (1999 est.)

Pipelines:
gas 88 km; oil 1,174 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Aden, Nishtun

Merchant marine:
total: 5 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 19,766 GRT/24,794 DWT
by type: cargo 1, chemical tanker 1, petroleum tanker 2, roll
on/roll off 1
registered in other countries: 2 (2005)

Airports:
44 (2004 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 16
over 3,047 m: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 9
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 28
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 7
1,524 to 2,437 m: 4
914 to 1,523 m: 11
under 914 m: 4 (2004 est.)

Military Yemen

Military branches:
Army (includes Special Forces), Naval Forces and Coastal Defenses
(includes Marines), Air Force (includes Air Defense Forces),
Republican Guard (2002)

Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service
obligation - 2 years (2004)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 4,058,223 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 2,790,705 (2005 est.)

Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 236,517 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$885.5 million (2003)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
7.8% (2003)

Military - note:
a Coast Guard was established in 2002

Transnational Issues Yemen

Disputes - international:
Yemen protests Eritrea fishing around the Hanish Islands awarded to
Yemen by the ICJ in 1999; despite resistance from nomadic groups,
the demarcation of the Saudi Arabia-Yemen boundary established under
the 2000 Jeddah Treaty is almost complete; Yemen protests Saudi
erection of a concrete-filled pipe as a security barrier in 2004 to
stem illegal cross-border activities in sections of the boundary

Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 60,901 (Somalia) (2004)

This page was last updated on 20 October, 2005

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@Zambia

Introduction Zambia

Background:
The territory of Northern Rhodesia was administered by the South
Africa Company from 1891 until it was taken over by the UK in 1923.
During the 1920s and 1930s, advances in mining spurred development
and immigrati