UNITED STATES (Continued)
Aid: obligations and loan authorizations (FY78), economic $6.51 billion, military $2.35 billion
Budget: (FY81 est.) receipts $605.64 billion, outlays $661,237 billion
Fiscal year: 1 October-30 September
COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: 286,885 km (1978)
Highways: 6,251,769.5 km (1978)
Inland waterways: 40,416 km of navigable inland channels, exclusive of the Great Lakes (1970)
Freight carried: rail—1,645.0 million metric tons, 1,360.0 billion metric ton/km (1980); highways—936.84 billion metric ton/km (1980); inland water freight (excluding Great Lakes traffic)—569.79 million metric tons, 319.01 billion metric tons/km (1979)
Pipelines: petroleum, 271,921 km (1979); natural gas, 408,203 km (1978)
Ports: 53 handling 9.07% million metric tons or more per year
Civil air: 3,208 multiengine transport aircraft—some 2,500 jet planes, remainder turboprop (December 1980)
Airfields: 14,746 in operation (1979)
Telecommunications: 162 million telephones (74 telephones per 100 popl.); 4,550 AM, 4,100 FM, and 990 TV broadcast stations; 436 million radio and 133 million TV receivers (1979)
DEFENSE FORCES
Personnel: army 1,108,000, air force 790,000, navy and marines 1,013,000 (1979)
Military budget: $146.2 billion (1981 est. in current dollars)
UPPER VOLTA
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LAND
274,540 km2; 50% pastureland, 21% fallow, 10% cultivated, 9% forest and scrub, 10% waste and other uses
Land boundaries: 3,307 km
PEOPLE
Population: 6,208,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 2.4%
Nationality: noun—Upper Voltan(s); adjective—Upper-Voltan
Ethnic divisions: more than 50 tribes; principal tribe is Mossi (about 2.5 million); other important groups are Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, Mande, and Fulani
Religion: majority of population animist, about 20% Muslim, 5% Christian (mainly Catholic)
Language: French official; tribal languages belong to Sudanic family, spoken by 50% of the population
Literacy: 5%-10%
Labor force: about 95% of the economically active population engaged in animal husbandry, subsistence farming, and related agricultural pursuits; about 30,000 are wage earners; about 20% of male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment
Organized labor: 4 principal trade union groups, represent less than 1% of population
GOVERNMENT
Official name: Republic of Upper Volta
Type: military; on 25 November 1980 a bloodless military coup ended three years of civilian rule and suspended political activity
Capital: Ouagadougou
Political subdivisions: 10 departments, composed of 44 cercles, headed by civilian administrators
Legal system: based on French civil law system and customary law
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