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NIGER (Continued) ===COMMUNICATIONS=== Railroads: none

Highways: 8,220 km total; 2,674 km paved bituminous, 2,658 km gravel, 2,888 km unimproved earth

Inland waterways: Niger River navigable 300 km from Niamey to Gaya on the Benin frontier from mid-December through March

Civil air: 4 major transport aircraft

Airfields: 66 total, 62 usable; 6 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 18 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: small system of wire and radio-relay links concentrated in southwestern area; 8,500 telephones (0.2 per 100 popl.); 12 AM stations, no FM, and 2 TV stations; 1 Atlantic Ocean satellite station, 4 domestic antennas under construction

DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: males 15-49, 1,255,000; 676,000 fit for military service; about 60,000 reach military age (18) annually

Military budget: for fiscal year ending 30 September 1981, $15.4 million; about 3.9% of central government budget  

LAND
924,630 km$2$; 24% arable (13% of total land area under cultivation), 35% forested, 41% desert, waste, urban, or other

Land boundaries: 4,034 km

WATER
Limits of territorial waters (claimed): 30 nm (fishing 200 nm; exclusive economic zone 200 nm)

Coastline: 853 km

PEOPLE
Population: 82,396,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 3.3%

Nationality: noun—Nigerian(s); adjective—Nigerian

Ethnic divisions: of the more than 250 tribal groups, the Hausa and Fulani of the north, the Yoruba of the south, and the Ibos of the east comprise 60% of the population; about 27,000 non-Africans

Religion: no exact figures on religious breakdown, but last census (1963) showed Nigeria to be 47% Muslim, 34% Christian, and 18% animist

Language: English official; Hausa, Yoruba, and Ibo also widely used

Literacy: est. 25%

Labor force: approx. 28-32 million (1979)

Organized labor: between 800,000 and 1 million wage earners, approx. 2.4% of total labor force, belong to some 70 unions

GOVERNMENT
Official name: Federal Republic of Nigeria

Type: federal republic since 1979

Capital: Lagos

Political subdivisions: 19 states, headed by elected governors

Legal system: based on English common law, tribal law, and Islamic law; new constitution was promulgated for  176