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KENYA (Continued) 

COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: 2,040 km meter gauge (1.00 m)

Highways: 52,250 km total; 5,542 km paved, 16,500 km gravel, 29,550 km improved earth, remainder unimproved earth

Inland waterways: part of Lake Victoria and Lake Rudolph systems are within boundaries of Kenya

Pipelines: refined products, 483 km

Ports: 1 major (Mombasa)

Civil air: 13 major transport aircraft, including 2 leased in

Airfields: 216 total, 194 usable; 12 with permanent-surface runways; 2 with runways over 3,659 m, 4 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 43 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: in top group of African systems; consists of radio-relay links, open-wire lines, and radiocommunication stations; 168,200 telephones (1.1 per 100 popl.); 9 AM, 2 FM, and 4 TV stations; Atlantic and Indian Ocean satellite service from 1 station

DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: males 15-49, 3,463,000; 2,130,000 fit for military service; no conscription

Military budget: for fiscal year ending 30 June 1980, $168.6 million; about 8% of central government budget  ==KIRIBATI (formerly Gilbert Islands)==

LAND
About 690 km$2$

WATER
Limits of territorial waters: 3 nm (fishing 200 nm)

Coastline: about 1,143 km

PEOPLE
Population: 59,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 1.1%

Nationality: noun—Kiribatian(s); adjective—Kiribati

Ethnic divisions: Micronesian

Religion: Catholic

Literacy: adult literacy ratio 90%

Labor force: 15,921 (1973); general unemployment rate 4.9%

GOVERNMENT
Official name: Republic of Kiribati

Type: republic; became independent 12 July 1979

Capital: Tarawa

Branches: 35-member parliament, nationally elected President

Government leader: President Ieremia TABAI

Political parties and leaders: Gilbertese National Party, Christian Democratic Party

Member of: ADB, GATT (de facto)

ECONOMY
GDP: $36.0 million (1979 est.), $630 per capita

Agriculture: copra, subsistence crops of vegetables, supplemented by domestic fishing

Industry: phosphate production, which as of May 1979 was expected to cease in mid-1979

Electric power: 2,000 kW capacity (1981); 6 million kWh produced (1981), 104 kWh per capita  125