PAPUA NEW GUINEA (Continued)
Civil air: about 15 major transport aircraft
Airfields: 535 total, 433 usable; 18 with permanent-surface runways; 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 41 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
Telecommunications: Papua New Guinea telecom services are adequate and are being improved; facilities provide radiobroadcast, radiotelephone and telegraph, coastal radio, aeronautical radio and international radiocommunication services; submarine cables extend from Madang to Australia and Guam; 45,274 telephones (1.5 per 100 popl.); 31 AM, no FM and no TV stations
DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: males 15-49, 748,000; about 413,000 fit for military service
Supply: dependent on Australia
Military budget: for fiscal year ending 30 June 1982, $33.6 million; 3.0% of central government budget
PARAGUAY
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LAND
406,630 km2; 2% under crops, 24% meadow and pasture, 52% forested, 22% urban, waste, and other
Land boundaries: 3,444 km
PEOPLE
Population: 3,347,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 2.4%
Nationality: noun—Paraguayan(s); adjective—Paraguayan
Ethnic divisions: 95% mestizo, 5% white and Indian
Religion: 97% Roman Catholic
Language: Spanish and Guarani
Literacy: officially estimated at 74% above age 10, but probably much lower (40%)
Labor force: 1,003,000 (1980); 52.6% agriculture, forestry, fishing; 28.2% services; 19.2% manufacturing and mining (1970); unemployment rate 3.3% (1980)
Organized labor: about 5% of labor force
GOVERNMENT
Official name: Republic of Paraguay
Type: republic; under authoritarian rule
Capital: Asunción
Political subdivisions: 19 departments and the national capital
Legal system: based on Argentine codes, Roman law, and French codes; constitution promulgated 1967; judicial review of legislative acts in Supreme Court; legal education at National University of Asunción and Catholic University of Our Lady of the Assumption; does not accept compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
National holiday: Independence Day, 14 May
Branches: President heads executive; bicameral legislature; judiciary headed by Supreme Court
Government leader: President Gen. Alfredo STROESSNER
