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URUGUAY (Continued) Budget: (1979 est.) revenue, $1,063 million; expenditure, $1,014 million

Monetary conversion rate: 9.16 pesos=US$1 (1980 annual average)

Fiscal year: calendar year

COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: 2,795 km, all standard gauge (1.435 m) and government owned

Highways: 49,900 km total; 6,700 km paved, 3,000 km gravel, 40,200 km earth

Inland waterways: 1,600 km; used by coastal and shallow-draft river craft

Freight carried: highways 80% of total cargo traffic, rail 15%, waterways 5%

Ports: 4 major (Montevideo, Colonia, Fray Bentos, Paysandu), 6 minor

Civil air: 22 major transport aircraft, including 1 leased in

Airfields: 129 total, 85 usable; 12 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 16 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: most modern facilities concentrated in Montevideo; 279,000 telephones (9.9 per 100 popl.); 85 AM, 4 FM, and 20 TV stations; 1 Atlantic Ocean satellite station

DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: males 15-49, 686,000; 557,000 fit for military service; no conscription

Military budget: for fiscal year ending 31 December 1979, $211.7 million; 18.6% of central government budget

  ==VANUATU (formerly New Hebrides)==

LAND
About 14,763 km²

WATER
Limits of territorial waters: 12 nm (fishing 200 nm; exclusive economic zone 200 nm)

Coastline: about 2,528 km

PEOPLE
Population: 123,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 2.7%

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

Ethnic divisions: 90% indigenous Melanesian, 8% French, remainder Vietnamese, Chinese, and various Pacific Islanders

Religion: most at least nominally Christian

Literacy: probably 10%-20%

GOVERNMENT
Official name: Republic of Vanuatu

Type: republic, formerly Anglo-French condominium of New Hebrides, independent 30 July 1980

Capital: Port-Vila

Political subdivisions: 4 administrative districts

Legal system: unified system being created from former dual French and British systems

Branches: Parliament of 39 members, elected November 1979

Government leader: Prime Minister Father Walter LINI

Political parties and leaders: National Party (Vanuaaku Pati), chairman Walter Lini

Member of: South Pacific Forum, UN

ECONOMY
Agriculture: export crops of copra, cocoa, coffee, some livestock and fish production; subsistence crops of copra, taro, yams  248