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DENMARK (Continued) textiles and clothing, chemical products, transport equipment, fish, furs, and furniture

Imports: $19.2 billion (c.i.f., 1980); principal items—industrial machinery, transport equipment, petroleum, textile fibers and yarns, iron and steel products, chemicals, grain and feedstuffs, wood and paper

Major trade partners: 49.5% EC-nine (18.8% West Germany, 13.2% UK); 13.0% Sweden; 5.0% US (1979)

Aid: donor—economic aid authorized (ODA and OOF) $1.7 billion (1970-79)

Budget: (1981) expenditures $24.2 billion, revenues $21.36 billion

Monetary conversion rate: 5.6359 Kroner=US$1 (1980)

Fiscal year: calendar year, beginning 1 January

COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: 2,770 km standard gauge (1.435 m); Danish State Railways (DSB) operate 2,120 km (1,999 km rail line and 121 km rail ferry services); 97 km electrified, 730 km double tracked; 650 km of standard gauge lines are privately owned and operated

Highways: approximately 66,482 km total; 64,551 km concrete, bitumen, or stone block; 1,931 km gravel, crushed stone, improved earth

Inland waterways: 417 km

Pipelines: refined products, 418 km

Ports: 16 major, 44 minor

Civil air: 55 major transport aircraft, including 5 leased out

Airfields: 178 total, 121 usable; 24 with permanent-surface runways; 9 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 6 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: excellent telephone, telegraph, and broadcast services; 3.11 million telephones (60.8 per 100 popl.); 1 AM, 37 FM, and 30 TV stations; 16 submarine coaxial cables

DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: males 15-49, 1,294,000; 1,094,000 fit for military service; 41,000 reach military age (20) annually

  ==DJIBOUTI (formerly French Territory of the Afars and Issas)==

LAND
23,310 km²; 89% desert wasteland, 10% permanent pasture, and less than 1% cultivated

Land boundaries: 517 km

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

Coastline: 314 km (includes offshore islands)

PEOPLE
Population: 306,000 (July 1982) average annual growth rate 4.1%

Nationality: noun—Afar(s), Issa(s); adjective—Afar, Issa

Ethnic divisions: Somalis (Issas) and Afars

Religion: 94% Muslim, 6% Christian

Language: French (official), Somali, Afar, Arabic, all widely used

Literacy: about 5%

Labor force: a small number of semiskilled laborers at port

Organized labor: some 3,000 railway workers organized

GOVERNMENT
Official name: Republic of Djibouti

Type: republic

Capital: Djibouti

Political subdivisions: 5 Cercles (districts)

Legal system: based on French civil law system, traditional practices, and Islamic law

Branches: 65-member Parliament, Cabinet, President, Prime Minister

Government leader: President HASSAN Gouled Aptidon

Suffrage: universal

Elections: Parliament elected May 1977  57