Military branches Army, Navy, Air Force, Air Defense Command

Military manpower - military age 20 years of age

Military manpower - availability
males age 15-49: 16,942,953 (1997 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service
males: 10,987,037 (1997 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually
males: 672,197 (1997 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure $3.28 billion (FY95/96)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP 8.2% (FY95/96)

Disputes - international administrative boundary with Sudan does not coincide with internationalboundary creating the "Hala'ib Triangle," a barren area of 20,580 sq km

Illicit drugs a transit point for Southwest Asian and Southeast Asian heroin and opiummoving to Europe and the US; popular transit stop for Nigerian couriers; large domestic consumption of hashish from Lebanon and Syria

NOTE: The information regarding Egypt on this page is re-published from the 1997 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Egypt Military 1997 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Egypt Military 1997 should be addressed to the CIA.