Military manpower - military age: 19 years of age
Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49:
1,913,857 (2000 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49:
1,599,379 (2000 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males:
57,461 (2000 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $379 million (FY99)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 2.7% (FY99)
Military - note: The Bulgarian Ministry of Defense has begun a new downsizing, modernization, and reform program (PLAN 2004) that will result in the adoption of a smaller force structure of around 50,000 personnel, based upon a Rapid Reaction Force and two additional corps headquarters, all with subordinate brigades