SENEGAL (Continued)
ECONOMY
GDP: $2.1 billion (1980), $378 per capita; real growth -11.9% in 1980; nominal growth -3.9% in 1980
Agriculture: main crops—peanuts, millet, sorghum, manioc, rice; peanuts primary cash crop; production of food crops increasing but still insufficient for domestic requirements
Fishing: catch 359,230 metric tons (1980); exports $153.8 million (1980)
Major industries: fishing, agricultural processing plants, light manufacturing, mining
Electric power: 310,850 kW capacity (1981); 1.106 billion kWh produced (1981), 92 kWh per capita
Exports: $570.3 million (f.o.b., 1980 est.); peanuts and peanut products; phosphate rock; canned fish
Imports: $1,022.2 million (c.i.f., 1980 est.); food, consumer goods, machinery, transport equipment
Major trade partners: France, EC (other than France), and franc zone
Budget: (1981/82) public revenue $432.7 million, current expenditures $432.7 million, development expenditures $191.7 million
Monetary conversion rate: francs; about 211.3 Communaute Financiere Africaine francs=US$1 (1980)
Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June
COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: 1,033 km meter gauge (1.00 m); 64 km double track
Highways: 13,898 km total; 3,461 km paved, 10,437 km other
Inland waterways: 1,505 km
Ports: 1 major (Dakar), 3 minor
Civil air: 5 major transport aircraft
Airfields: 28 total, 28 usable; 11 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 20 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
Telecommunications: above average urban system; 40,200 telephones (0.8 per 100 popl.); 8 AM stations, no FM, and 1 TV station; 2 submarine cables; 1 Atlantic Ocean satellite station
DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: males 15-49, 1,324,000; 668,000 fit for military service; 61,000 reach military age (18) annually
Military budget: for fiscal year ending 30 June 1981, $70.7 million; about 7.4% of central government budget
SEYCHELLES
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LAND
404 km2; 54% arable land, nearly all of it is under cultivation, 17% wood and forest land, 29% other (mainly reefs and other surfaces unsuited for agriculture); 40 granitic and 50 or more coralline islands
WATER
Limits of territorial waters (claimed): 12 nm (economic, including fishing, 200 nm)
Coastline: 491 km (Mahe Island 93 km)
PEOPLE
Population: 66,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 1.9%
Nationality: noun—Seychellois (sing. and pl.); adjective—Seychelles
Ethnic divisions: Seychellois (admixture of Asians, Africans, Europeans)
Religion: 90% Roman Catholic
Language: Creole official and most widely spoken; English, French
Literacy: 60% adult; 75% school-age children
Labor force: 15,000 in monetized sector (excluding self-employed, domestic servants, and workers on small farms); 33% public sector employment, 20% private sector employment in agriculture, 20% private sector employment in construction and catering services
Organized labor: 3 major trade unions
GOVERNMENT
Official name: Republic of Seychelles
Type: republic; member of the Commonwealth
Capital: Victoria, Mahé Island
Legal system: based on English common law, French civil law system, and customary law
National holiday: 29 June
Branches: President, Council of Ministers
