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MALI (Continued) officers; under MCNL functional Cabinet composed of civilians and army officers; judiciary

Government leaders: Brig. Gen, Moussa TRAORE, President of MCNL, Chief of State, and head of government

Suffrage: universal over age 21

Political parties and leaders: Democratic Union of Malian People (UDPM), is the sole political party under civilian leadership

Elections: constitutional elections took place June 1979

Communists: a few Communists and some sympathizers

Member of: AFDB, APC, CEAO, EGA, ECOWAS, FAO, G-77, GATT (de facto), IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, ISCON, ITU, Niger River Commission, NAM, OAU, OMVS (Organization for the Development of the Senegal River Valley), UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WMO, WTO

ECONOMY
GDP: $1.15 billion (1980), $163 per capita; annual real growth rate 5.7% (1980)

Agriculture: main crops—millet, sorghum, rice, corn, peanuts; cash crops—peanuts, cotton, and livestock

Fishing: catch 95,000 tons (1960)

Major industries: small local consumer goods and processing

Electric power: 50,000 kW capacity (1980); 115 million kWh produced (1980), 17 kWh per capita

Exports: $175.4 million (f.o.b, 1980); livestock, peanuts, dried fish, cotton, and skins

Imports: $300.9 million (f.o.b., 1980); textiles, vehicles, petroleum products, machinery, and sugar

Major trade partners: mostly with franc zone and Western Europe; also with USSR, China

Budget: (1980) revenues $181.4 million, current expenditures $187.5 million

Monetary conversion rate: 422.6 Mali francs=US$1 (1980)

Fiscal year: calendar year

COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: 642 km meter gauge (1.00 m)

Highways: approximately 15,700 km total; 1,670 km bituminous, 3,670 km gravel and improved earth, 10,360 km unimproved earth

Inland waterways: 1,815 km navigable

Civil air: 3 major transport aircraft

Airfields: 44 total, 39 usable; 8 with permanent-surface runways; 5 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 10 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: domestic system poor and provides only minimal service; radio-relay, wire, and radiocommunications stations in use; expansion of radio relay in progress; 8,000 telephones; 2 AM, no FM, and no TV stations; 2 antennas for Atlantic and Indian Ocean INTELSAT satellites

DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: males 15-49, 1,521,000; 767,000 fit for military service; no conscription 150