MEXICO (Continued)
Major industries: processing of food, beverages, and tobacco; chemicals, basic metals and metal products, petroleum products, mining, textiles and clothing, and transport equipment
Crude steel: 9.8 million metric tons capacity (1980); 7.2 million metric tons produced (1980)
Electric power: 14,320,000 kW capacity (1981); 60.0 billion kWh produced (1981), 769 kWh per capita
Exports: $15,308 million (f.o.b., 1980); cotton, coffee, nonferrous minerals (including lead and zinc), sugar, shrimp, petroleum, sulfur, salt, cattle and meat, fresh fruit, tomatoes, machinery and equipment
Imports: $18,572 million (c.i.f., 1980); machinery, equipment, industrial vehicles, and intermediate goods
Major trade partners: exports—62% US, 14% EC, 4% Japan (1980); imports—65% US, 19% EC, 5% Japan
Aid: economic—(including Ex-Im Credits) extensions (FY70-80) from US, $1,673.0 million; (1970-79) from Communist countries, $35.0 million; from other Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF (1970-79), $1,956.0 million
Budget: 1980 public sector, revenues $58.1 billion, expenditures $66.9 billion
Monetary conversion rate: floating; 22.951 pesos=US$1 (1980 average)
Fiscal year: calendar year
COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: 20,270 km total; 19,380 km standard gauge (1.435 m); 890 km narrow gauge (0.914 m); 20 km electrified; 20,160 km government owned, 110 km privately owned
Highways: 213,190 km total; 66,375 km paved, 119,050 km otherwise improved, 27,765 km unimproved
Inland waterways: 2,900 km navigable rivers and coastal canals
Pipelines: crude oil, 3,910 km; refined products, 3,490 km; natural gas, 5,710 km
Ports: 12 major, 19 minor
Civil air: 134 major transport aircraft, including 6 leased in
Airfields: 2,196 total, 2,060 usable; 164 with permanent-surface runways; 2 with runways over 3,659 m, 21 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 291 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
Telecommunications: highly developed telecom system with extensive radio-relay links; connection into Central American microwave net; 1 Atlantic Ocean satellite ground station; 3.71 million telephones (5.6 per 100 popl.); 574 AM, 109 FM, and 83 TV stations; and about 100 low-power relay stations; second satellite station planned
DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: males 15-49, 16,358,000; 12,971,000 fit for military service; reach military age (18) annually, 810,000
Military budget: for year ending 31 December 1981, $1,656.0 million; 2.3% of central government budget
MONACO
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LAND
1.5 km2
Land boundaries: 3.7 km
WATER
Limits of territorial waters (claimed): 12 nm
Coastline: 4.1 km
PEOPLE
Population: 26,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 0.8%
Nationality: noun—Monacan(s) or Monegasque(s); adjective—Monacan or Monegasque
Ethnic divisions: Rhaetian stock
Religion: Roman Catholicism is official state religion
Language: French
Literacy: almost complete
GOVERNMENT
Official name: Principality of Monaco
Type: constitutional monarchy
Capital: Monaco
Political subdivisions: 4 sections
Legal system: based on French law; new constitution adopted 1962; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
National holiday: 19 November
Branches: National Council (18 members); Communal Council (15 members, headed by a mayor)
Government leader: Prince RAINIER III
Suffrage: universal
Elections: National Council every five years; most recent 1978
Political parties and leaders: National Democratic Entente, Democratic Union Movement, Monegasque Actionist (1973)
Voting strength: figures for 1978: National Democratic Entente, 18 seats
