Tajikistan
Military: TAJIKISTAN
Military branches:
Ground Forces, Air and Air Defense Forces, Mobile Forces (2013)
Military service age and obligation:
18-27 years of age for compulsory or voluntary military service; 2-year conscript service obligation; males required to undergo compulsory military training between ages 16 and 55; males can enroll in military schools from at least age 15 (2012)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 2,012,790
females age 16-49: 2,020,618 (2010 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 1,490,267
females age 16-49: 1,675,083 (2010 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 76,430
female: 74,038 (2010 est.)
Military expenditures:
country comparison to the world: 101
Transnational Issues: TAJIKISTAN
Disputes - international:
in 2006, China and Tajikistan pledged to commence demarcation of the revised boundary agreed to in the delimitation of 2002; talks continue with Uzbekistan to delimit border and remove minefields; disputes in Isfara Valley delay delimitation with Kyrgyzstan
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
stateless persons: 2,300 (2012)
Illicit drugs:
major transit country for Afghan narcotics bound for Russian and, to a lesser extent, Western European markets; limited illicit cultivation of opium poppy for domestic consumption; Tajikistan seizes roughly 80% of all drugs captured in Central Asia and stands third worldwide in seizures of opiates (heroin and raw opium); significant consumer of opiates