MALI (Continued)
officers; under MCNL functional Cabinet composed of civilians and army officers; judiciary
Government leaders: Brig. Gen, Moussa TRAORE, President of MCNL, Chief of State, and head of government
Suffrage: universal over age 21
Political parties and leaders: Democratic Union of Malian People (UDPM), is the sole political party under civilian leadership
Elections: constitutional elections took place June 1979
Communists: a few Communists and some sympathizers
Member of: AFDB, APC, CEAO, EGA, ECOWAS, FAO, G-77, GATT (de facto), IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, ISCON, ITU, Niger River Commission, NAM, OAU, OMVS (Organization for the Development of the Senegal River Valley), UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WMO, WTO
ECONOMY
GDP: $1.15 billion (1980), $163 per capita; annual real growth rate 5.7% (1980)
Agriculture: main crops—millet, sorghum, rice, corn, peanuts; cash crops—peanuts, cotton, and livestock
Fishing: catch 95,000 tons (1960)
Major industries: small local consumer goods and processing
Electric power: 50,000 kW capacity (1980); 115 million kWh produced (1980), 17 kWh per capita
Exports: $175.4 million (f.o.b, 1980); livestock, peanuts, dried fish, cotton, and skins
Imports: $300.9 million (f.o.b., 1980); textiles, vehicles, petroleum products, machinery, and sugar
Major trade partners: mostly with franc zone and Western Europe; also with USSR, China
Budget: (1980) revenues $181.4 million, current expenditures $187.5 million
Monetary conversion rate: 422.6 Mali francs=US$1 (1980)
Fiscal year: calendar year
COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: 642 km meter gauge (1.00 m)
Highways: approximately 15,700 km total; 1,670 km bituminous, 3,670 km gravel and improved earth, 10,360 km unimproved earth
Inland waterways: 1,815 km navigable
Civil air: 3 major transport aircraft
Airfields: 44 total, 39 usable; 8 with permanent-surface runways; 5 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 10 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
Telecommunications: domestic system poor and provides only minimal service; radio-relay, wire, and radiocommunications stations in use; expansion of radio relay in progress; 8,000 telephones; 2 AM, no FM, and no TV stations; 2 antennas for Atlantic and Indian Ocean INTELSAT satellites
DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: males 15-49, 1,521,000; 767,000 fit for military service; no conscription
