s: Mongolian People's Army (includes Internal
Security Forces and Frontier Guards), Air Force

Military manpower--military age: 18 years of age

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 702,141 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 457,270 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--reaching military age annually:
males: 28,613 (1999 est.)

Military expenditures--dollar figure: $20.3 million (1997)

Military expenditures--percent of GDP: 2% (1997)

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: none

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Geography

Location: Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, southeast of
Puerto Rico

Geographic coordinates: 16 45 N, 62 12 W

Map references: Central America and the Caribbean

Area:
total: 100 sq km
land: 100 sq km
water: 0 sq km

Area--comparative: about 0.6 times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 40 km

Maritime claims:
exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 3 nm

Climate: tropical; little daily or seasonal temperature variation

Terrain: volcanic islands, mostly mountainous, with small coastal
lowland

Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m
highest point: Chances Peak 914 m

Natural resources: NEGL

Land use:
arable land: 20%
permanent crops: 0%
permanent pastures: 10%
forests and woodland: 40%
other: 30% (1993 est.)

Irrigated land: NA sq km

Natural hazards: severe hurricanes (June to November); volcanic
eruptions (full-scale eruptions of the Soufriere Hills volcano
occurred during 1996-97)

Environment--current issues: land erosion occurs on slopes that
have been cleared for cultivation

Environment--international agreements:
party to: NA
signed, but not ratified: NA

People

Population: 12,853 (July 1999 est.)
note: demographic figures include an estimated 8,000 refugees who
left the island following the resumption of volcanic activity in
July 1995

Age structure:
0-14 years: NA
15-64 years: NA
65 years and over: NA

Population growth rate: 0.21% (1999 est.)

Birth rate: 13.87 births/1,000 population (1999 est.)

Death rate: 9.88 deaths/1,000 population (1999 est.)

Net migration rate: -1.94 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1999 est.)

Infant mortality rate: 12 deaths/1,000 live bir