WALLIS AND FUTUNA (Continued)
ECONOMY
Agriculture: dominated by coconut production with subsistence crops of yams, taro, bananas
Electric power: 1,000 kW capacity (1981); 1 million kWh produced (1981), 133 kWh per capita
Exports: negligible
Imports: $3.4 million (1977); largely foodstuffs and some equipment associated with development programs
Aid: (1978) France, European Development Fund, $2.6 million
Monetary conversion rate: 75 Colonial Franc Pacifique (CFP)=US$1
COMMUNICATIONS
Highways: 100 km of improved road on Uvea Island (1977)
Ports: 2 minor
Airfields: 2 total, 2 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways, 1 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
Telecommunications: 148 telephones (1.6 per 100 popl.)
DEFENSE FORCES
No formal defense structure; no regular armed forces
WESTERN SAHARA
(formerly Spanish Sahara)
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LAND
266,770 km2 , nearly all desert
Land boundaries: 2,086 km
WATER
Limits of territorial waters (claimed): 6 nm (fishing 12 nm)
Coastline: 1,110 km
PEOPLE
Population: 86,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 1.8%
Nationality: noun—Saharan(s), Moroccan(s); adjective—Saharan, Moroccan
Ethnic divisions: Arab, Berber, and Negro nomads
Religion: Muslim
Languages: Hassaniya Arabic, Moroccan Arabic
Literacy: among Moroccans, probably nearly 20%; among Saharans, perhaps 5%
Labor force: 12,000; 50% animal husbandry and subsistence farming, 50% other
Organized labor: none
GOVERNMENT
Official name: Western Sahara
Type: legal status of territory and question of sovereignty unresolved—territory partitioned between Morocco and Mauritania in April 1976, with Morocco acquiring the northern two-thirds including the rich phosphate reserves at Bu Craa. Mauritania, under pressure from the Polisario guerrillas, abandoned all claims to its portion in August 1979; Morocco moved to occupy that sector shortly thereafter and has since asserted administrative control there; OAU-sponsored referendum proposed to resolve situation while guerrilla activities continue into 1982
