GUINEA (Continued)
National holiday: Independence Day, 2 October
Branches: executive branch dominant, with power concentrated in President's hands and a small group who are both ministers and members of the party's politburo; unicameral People's National Assembly (210 members) and judiciary have little independence
Government leader: President Ahmed Sekou TOURE, who has been designated “The Supreme Leader of the Revolution”
Suffrage: universal over age 18
Elections: approximate schedule—five years parliamentary, latest in 1980; seven years presidential, latest in 1975
Political parties and leaders: only party is Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG), headed by Sekou Toure
Communists: no Communist party, although there are some sympathizers
Member of: AFDB, ECA, ECOWAS, FAO, G-77, IBA, IBRD, ICAO, ICO, IDA, IFAD, ILO, IMCO, IMF, ISCON, ITU, Niger River Commission, NAM, OAU, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WMO
ECONOMY
GNP: $1.5 billion (1980), $270 per capita
Agriculture: cash crops—coffee, bananas, palm products, peanuts, and pineapples; staple food crops—cassava, rice, millet, corn, sweet potatoes; livestock raised in some areas
Major industries: bauxite mining, alumina, light manufacturing and processing industries
Electric power: 75,000 kW capacity (1980); 500 million kWh produced (1980), 90 kWh per capita
Exports: $410 million (f.o.b., 1980); bauxite, alumina, coffee, pineapples, bananas, palm kernels
Imports: $380 million (f.o.b., 1980); petroleum products, metals, machinery and transport equipment, foodstuffs, textiles
Major trade partners: Communist countries, Western Europe (including France), US
Budget: (1979) public revenue $479.6 million, current expenditures $271.2 million, development expenditures $435.6 million
Monetary conversion rate: 18.928 syli=US$1 floating (February 1981)
Fiscal year: calendar year
COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: 805 km; 662 km meter gauge (1.000 m), 143 km standard gauge (1.435 m)
Highways: 7,604 km total; 4,949 km paved, remainder unimproved earth
Inland waterways: 1,295 km navigable by shallow-draft native craft
Ports: 1 major (Conakry), 2 minor
Civil air: 13 major transport aircraft
Airfields: 18 total, 18 usable; 4 with permanent-surface runways; 3 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 9 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: males 15-49, 1,173,000; 590,000 fit for military service
