LEBANON (Continued)
ECONOMY
Agriculture: fruits, wheat, corn, barley, potatoes, tobacco, olives, onions; not self-sufficient in food
Major industries: service industries, food processing, textiles, cement, oil refining, chemicals, some metal fabricating, tourism
Electric power: 604,000 kW capacity (1980); 2.325 billion kWh produced (1980), 760 kWh per capita
Exports: $817 million (f.o.b., 1980)
Imports: $3.2 billion (f.o.b., 1980)
Budget: (1981) public revenue $942 million, current expenditures $941 million, development expenditures $327 million
Monetary conversion rate: 4.61 Lebanese pounds=US$1 as of October 1981
Fiscal year: calendar year
COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: 378 km total; 296 km standard gauge (1.435 m), 82 km 1.050-meter gauge; all single track
Highways: 7,370 km total; 6,270 km paved, 450 km gravel and crushed stone, 650 km improved earth
Pipelines: crude oil, 72 km
Ports: 3 major (Beirut, Tripoli, Sayda), 5 minor
Civil air: 36 major transport aircraft, including 2 leased out and 4 leased in
Airfields: 8 total, 6 usable; 4 with permanent-surface runways; 3 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 2 with runways 1,220-2,439 m; major military airfields are Riyaq and Kleiat
Telecommunications: rebuilding program disrupted; international facilities restored, domestic being rebuilt; fair system of radio relay, cable; approx 125,000 telephones (5.0 per 100 popl.); 2 FM, 4 AM, and 7 TV stations; 1 Indian Ocean satellite station; 3 submarine cables; planned second satellite station
DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: males 15-49, 719,000; 443,000 fit for military service; average of about 40,000 reach military age (18) annually
Military budget: for fiscal year ending 31 December 1982, $272 million; 26% of central government budget
LESOTHO
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LAND
30,303 km2; 15% cultivable; largely mountainous
Land boundaries: 805 km
PEOPLE
Population: 1,395,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 2.2%
Nationality: noun—Mosotho (sing.), Basotho (pl.); adjective—Basotho
Ethnic divisions: 99.7% Sotho, 1,600 Europeans, 800 Asians
Religion: 70% or more Christian, rest animist
Language: all Africans speak Sesotho vernacular; English is second language for literates
Literacy: 40%
Labor force: 87.4% of resident population engaged in subsistence agriculture; 150,000 to 250,000 spend from six months to many years as wage earners in South Africa
Organized labor: negligible
GOVERNMENT
Official name: Kingdom of Lesotho
Type: constitutional monarchy under King Moshoeshoe II; independent member of Commonwealth since 1966
Capital: Maseru
Political subdivisions: 10 administrative districts
Legal system: based on English common law and Roman-Dutch law; constitution came into effect 1966; judicial review of legislative acts in High Court and Court of Appeal; legal education at National University of Lesotho; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
National holiday: 4 October
Branches: executive, divided between a largely ceremonial King and a Prime Minister who leads Cabinet of at least seven members; Prime Minister dismissed bicameral legislature in early 1970 and subsequently ruled by decree until 1973 when he appointed Interim National Assembly to act as
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