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DJIBOUTI (Continued) Political parties and leaders: Peoples Progress Assembly (RPP), Hassan Gouled

Communists: possibly a few sympathizers

Member of: Arab League, FAO, GATT (de facto), IBRD, ICAU, IDA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMCO, IMF, ISCO, ITU, NAM, OAU, UN

ECONOMY
GNP: $264.7 million (1978)

Agriculture: livestock; desert conditions limit commercial crops to about 6 hectares, including fruits and vegetables

Industry: ship repairs and services of port and railroad drastically reduced with war of 1977-78 in Ethiopia's Ogaden that cut the railroad line; it has since been reopened

Electric power: 55,000 kW capacity (1980); 220 million kWh produced (1980), 770 kWh per capita

Imports: $92 million (1978); almost all domestically needed goods—foods, machinery, transport equipment

Exports: $86 million (1978); hides and skins, and transit of coffee; values plummeted after railroad line was cut

Monetary conversion rate: 178 Djibouti francs=US$1

Fiscal year: probably same as that for France (calendar year)

COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: the Franco-Ethiopian railroad extends for 97 km through Djibouti

Highways: 1,387 km total; 279 km bituminous surface, 112 km improved earth; 996 km unimproved earth

Ports: 1 major (Djibouti)

Airfields: 11 total, 11 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runway; 1 with runway 2,440-3,659 m, 4 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Civil air: 2 major transport aircraft, including 1 leased in

Telecommunications: fair system of urban facilities in Djibouti and radiocommunication stations at outlying places; 4,350 telephones (1.2 per 100 popl.); 1 AM station and no FM stations; 1 TV station; 1 INTELSAT satellite station at Ambouli, working with Indian Ocean satellite

DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: males 15-49, about 64,000; about 38,000 fit for military service

Defense is responsibility of France

Military budget: for fiscal year ending 31 December 1981, $2.9 million; about 3.4% of central government budget

 

LAND
790 km$2$ ; 24% arable, 2% pasture, 67% forests, 7% other

WATER
Limits of territorial waters (claimed): 3 nm (fishing 12 nm)

Coastline: 148 km

PEOPLE
Population: 80,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 0.6%

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

Ethnic divisions: mostly of African Negro descent

Religion: Roman Catholic, Church of England, Methodist

Language: English; French patois

Literacy: about 80%

Labor force: 23,000; about 50% in agriculture; 24% unemployment

Organized labor: 25% of the labor force

GOVERNMENT
Official name: Commonwealth of Dominica

Type: independent state within Commonwealth as of 3 November 1978, recognizes Elizabeth II as Chief of State

Capital: Roseau

Political subdivisions: 10 parishes

Legal system: based on English common law; three local magistrate courts and the British Caribbean Court of Appeals

Branches: legislature, 11-member popularly elected House of Assembly; executive, Cabinet headed by Premier

Government leader: Prime Minister (Mary) Eugenia CHARLES

Suffrage: universal adult suffrage over age 18

Elections: every five years; most recent 21 July 1980

Political parties and leaders: Dominica Labor Party (DLP), Michael Douglas; Dominica Freedom Party (DFP),  58