GUATEMALA (Continued)
Major industries: food processing, textiles and clothing, furniture, chemicals, nonmetallic minerals, metals
Electric power: 420,000 kW capacity (1980); 1.43 billion kWh produced (1980), 200 kWh per capita
Exports: $1,757 million (f.o.b., 1980); coffee, cotton, sugar, bananas, meat
Imports: $1,971 million (c.i.f., 1980); manufactured products, machinery, transportation equipment, chemicals, fuels
Major trade partners: exports (1979)—31% US, 26% CACM, 10% West Germany, 9% Japan; imports (1979)—33% US, 15% CACM, 10% Venezuela, 10% Japan, 6% West Germany
Aid: economic commitments—US, including Ex-Im (FY70-80), $241 million; from other Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF, $99 million; military—assistance from US (FY70-79), $22 million
Central government budget (1981 est.): expenditures, $1,280 million; revenues, $815 million
Monetary conversion rate: 1 quetzal=US$1 (official)
Fiscal year: calendar year
COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: 909 km, 0.914-meter gauge, single tracked; 819 km government owned, 90 km privately owned
Highways: 26,429 km total; 2,851 km paved, 11,438 km gravel, and 12,140 unimproved
Inland waterways: 260 km navigable year round; additional 730 km navigable during high-water season
Pipelines: crude oil, 48 km
Ports: 2 major (San Jose, and Santo Tomas de Castilla), 3 minor
Civil air: 14 major transport aircraft, including 1 leased in
Airfields: 532 total, 527 usable; 10 with permanent-surface runways; 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 17 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
Telecommunications: modern telecom facilities limited to Guatemala City; 70,600 telephones (1.4 per 100 popl.); 97 AM, 20 FM, and 25 TV stations; connection into Central American microwave net; 1 Atlantic Ocean satellite station
DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: males 15-49, 1,750,000; 1,189,000 fit for military service; about 82,000 reach military age (18) annually
Military budget: proposed for fiscal year ending 31 December 1981, $79.0 million; 5.4% of central government budget
GUINEA
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LAND
246,050 km²; 3% cropland, 10% forest
Land boundaries: 3,476 km
WATER
Limits of territorial waters (claimed): 12 nm (fishing 200 nm; economic zone 200 nm)
Coastline: 346 km
PEOPLE
Population: 5,278,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 2.6%
Nationality: noun—Guinean(s); adjective—Guinean
Ethnic divisions: 99% African (3 major tribes—Fulani, Malinke, Susu; and 15 smaller tribes)
Religion: 75% Muslim, 25% animist, Christian, less than 1%
Language: French official; each tribe has own language
Literacy: 5% to 10%; French only significant written language
Labor force: 1.8 million, of whom less than 10% are wage earners; most of population engages in subsistence agriculture
Organized labor: virtually 100% of wage labor force loosely affiliated with the National Confederation of Guinean Workers, which is closely tied to the PDG
GOVERNMENT
Official name: People's Revolutionary Republic of Guinea
Type: republic; under one-party presidential regime
Capital: Conakry
Political subdivisions: 35 administrative regions, 170 arrondissements, about 8,000 local entities at village level
Legal system: based on French civil law system, customary law, and presidential decree; constitution adopted 1958; no constitutional provision for judicial review of legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
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