BURUNDI (Continued)
COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: none
Highways: 7,800 km total; 300 km bituminous, 2,500 km crushed stone, gravel, or laterite, and 3,000 km improved earth,and 2,000 km unimproved earth
Inland waterways: Lake Tanganyika navigable for lake steamers and barges; 1 lake port
Civil air: 4 major transport aircraft
Airfields: 8 total, 7 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m
Telecommunications: sparse system of wire and low-capacity radio-relay links; about 6,000 telephones (0.1 per 100 pop].); 2 AM and 2 FM stations; no TV stations; INTELSAT satellite ground station
DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: males 15-49, 1,003,000; 521,000 fit for military service; 50,000 reach military age (16) annually
Military budget: for fiscal year ending 31 December 1980, $35.5 million; about 21.8% of central government budget
CAMEROON
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LAND
475,400 km2; 4% cultivated, 18% grazing, 13% fallow, 50% forest, 15% other
Land boundaries: 4,554 km
WATER
Limits of territorial waters (claimed): 50 nm
Coastline: 402 km
PEOPLE
Population: 9,049,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 2.9%; this estimate does not take into account migration between Cameroon and Chad during recent years
Nationality: noun—Cameroonian(s); adjective—Cameroonian
Ethnic divisions: about 200 tribes of widely differing background; 31% Cameroon Highlanders, 19% Equatorial Bantu, 11% Kirdi, 10% Fulani, 8% Northwestern Bantu, 7% Eastern Nigritic, 13% other African, less than 1% non-African
Religion: about one-half animist, one-third Christian, one-sixth Muslim
Language: English and French official, 24 major African language groups
Literacy: South 40%, North 10%
Labor force: most of population engaged in subsistence agriculture and herding; 200,000 wage earners (maximum) including 22,000 government employees, 63,000 paid agricultural workers, 49,000 in manufacturing
Organized labor: under 45% of wage labor force
GOVERNMENT
Official name: United Republic of Cameroon
Type: unitary republic; one-party presidential regime
Capital: Yaoundé
Political subdivisions: 7 provinces divided into 40 departments, 153 arrondissements, 31 districts
