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VANUATU (Continued) Electric power: 10,000 kW capacity (1981); 17 million kWh produced (1981), 162 kWh per capita

Exports: $32.2 million (1977); 24% copra, 59% frozen fish, meat

Imports: $40.1 million (1977); 18% food

Aid: Australia (1980-83), $14.4 million

Monetary conversion rate: 1 pound=US$5.12 (official currency, 1979), Australian $0.89=US$1, 75 Colonial Franc Pacifique (CFP)=US$1 (1978/79)

COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: none

Highways: at least 240 km sealed or all-weather roads

Inland waterways: none

Ports: 2 minor

Civil air: no major transport aircraft

Airfields: 31 total, 29 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways, 2 runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: 2 AM broadcast stations; 2,400 telephones (2.4 per 100 popl.); 1 ground satellite station under construction

DEFENSE FORCES
Personnel: no military forces maintained; however, the French and British maintain constabularies of about 100 men each

 

LAND
0.438 km$2$

Land boundaries: 3 km

PEOPLE
Population: 1,000 (July 1980), average annual growth rate 0.0%

Ethnic divisions: primarily Italians but also many other nationalities

Religion: Roman Catholic

Language: Italian, Latin, and various modern languages

Literacy: virtually complete

Labor force: approx. 700; Vatican City employees divided into three categories—executives, officeworkers, and salaried employees

Organized labor: none

GOVERNMENT
Official name: State of the Vatican City

Type: monarchical-sacerdotal state

Capital: Vatican City

Political subdivisions: Vatican City includes St. Peter's, the Vatican Palace and Museum, and neighboring buildings covering more than 13 acres; 13 buildings in Rome, although outside the boundaries, enjoy extraterritorial rights

Legal system: Canon law; constitutional laws of 1929 serve some of the functions of a constitution

National holiday: 30 June

Branches: the Pope possesses full executive, legislative, and judicial powers; he delegates these powers to the governor of Vatican City, who is subject to pontifical appointment and recall; high Vatican offices include the Secretariat of State, the College of Cardinals (chief papal advisers), the Roman Curia (which carries on the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church), the Presidence of the Prefecture for the Economy, and the synod of bishops (created in 1965)  249