1985 Edition

Agriculture

cash crops — coffee, sisal, corn, cotton, sugar, manioc, and tobacco; food crops — cassava, corn, vegetables, plantains, bananas, and other local foodstuffs; largely self-sufficient in food

pigeon peas, corn, sweet potatoes, sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, poultry

Airfields

354 total, 272 usable; 26 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways over 3,659 m, 11 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 68 with runways 1,220-2,439 m Anguilla

Area

1,246,700 km2; larger than California and Texas combined; 44% forest; 22% meadow and pasture; 1 % cultivated; 33% other (including fallow)

Branches

the official party is the supreme political institution; legislative — National People's Assembly

Army, Navy, Air Force/Air Defense; paramilitary forces — Peoples' Police Corps, Peoples' Defense Organization, Frontier Guard

11-member House of Assembly, seven-member Executive Council

Budget

(1981) est. reserve $2.0 billion; est. total expenditures $3.5 billion

revenue, EC $9,899,801 (1982); expenditure, EC $10,759,868 (1982); grant-inaid, EC $1,081,000 (1982)

Capital

Luanda

The Valley

Civil air

22 major transport aircraft

Coastline

1,600km People

Communists

none

Elections

none held to date Political parties and leaders: Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-Labor Party (MPLA-Labor Party), led by dos Santos, only legal party; National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), defeated in civil war, carrying out insurgen-

general election, March 1984 Political parties and leaders: Anguilla National Alliance (ANA), Emile Gumbs; Anguillan People's Party (APP), Ronald Webster

Electric power

630,000 kW capacity (1984); 1.650 billion kWh produced (1984), 212 kWh per capita

1,500,000 kW capacity (1984); 2 million kWh produced (1984), 285 kWh per capita

Ethnic divisions

38% Ovimbundu, 23% Kimbundu, 13% Bakongo, 2% Mestico, 1% European

mainly of African Negro descent

Exports

est. $1.6 billion (f.o.b., 1983); oil, coffee, diamonds, sisal, fish and fish products, iron ore, timber, corn, and cotton

lobsters

Fiscal year

calendar year Communications

probably calendar

Fishing

catch 1 12,000 metric tons (1982)

inshore and reef fishing; catch unknown

GDP

$4.2 billion (1981 est.), $550 per capita, 0.1% real growth (1981)

unknown (January 1985)

Government leader

Jose Eduardo dos SANTOS, President (since September 1979)

Government leaders

Allistair BAILLE, Governor (since February 1984); Emile GUMBS, Chief Minister (since March 1984)

Highways

73,828 km total; 8,577 km bituminous-surface treatment, 29,350 km crushed stone, gravel, or improved earth, remainder unimproved earth

Imports

est. $1.5 billion (f.o.b., 1983); capital equipment (machinery and electrical equipment), wines, bulk iron and ironwork, steel and metals, vehicles and spare parts, textiles and clothing, medicines; military deliveries partially offset drop in imports in 1975-77

Inland waterways

1,165 km navigable

Labor force

1,865,000 economically active (mid-1980 est); 60% agriculture, 15% industry

2,000 Anguillans living overseas send remittances home; high unemployment (40% in 1977)

Land boundaries

5,070 km Water

Language

Portuguese (official); various Bantu dialects '

English (official)

Legal system

formerly based on Portuguese civil law system and customary law; being modified along "socialist" model

based on English common law; constitution came into effect on 1 April 1982

Limits of territorial waters (claimed)

20 nm (fishing 200 nm)

Literacy

20%

80%

Major industries

mining (oil, diamonds), fish processing, brewing, tobacco, sugar processing, textiles, cement, food processing plants, building construction

lobster exports, tourism, salt

Major trade partners

Cuba, USSR, Portugal, and US

Member of

Af DB, FAO, G-77, GATT (de facto), ICAO, IFAD, ILO, IMO, INTELSAT, ITU, NAM, OAU, SADCC, UN, UNESCO, UNICEF, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WMO Economy

Commonwealth Economy

Military manpower

males 15-49, 1,757,000; 885,000 fit for military service; 74,000 reach military age (20) annually Prickly Pear Cays THE VALLEY Caribbean Sea See rpRionil map III Land Anguilla, 91 km2; about one-half the size of Washington, D.C.; Sombrero, 5 km2 People

Monetary conversion rate

30.214 kwanza=US$l (December 1984)

2.70 East Caribbean dollars=$USl (February 1984)

National holiday

Independence Day, 11 November

Nationality

noun — Angolan(s); adjecti Angolan

noun — Anguillan(s); adjective— Anguillan

Official name

People's Republic of Angola

Anguilla

Organized labor

approx. 450,695 (1980) Government

none Government

Pipelines

crude oil, 179 km

Political subdivisions

18 provinces including the coastal exclave of Cabinda

Population

7,953,000, including Cabinda (July 1985), average annual growth rate 2.7%; Cabinda, 129,000(July 1985), average annual growth rate 3.2%

7,000 (1982 est.)

Ports

3 major (Luanda, Lobito, Namibe), 5 minor

Railroads

3,189 km total; 2,879 km 1.067meter gauge, 310 km 0.600-meter gauge

Religion

68% Roman Catholic, 20% Protestant, about 10% indigenous beliefs

Anglican and Methodist

Suffrage

to be determined

native born; resident before separation from St. Christopher-Nevis; 15 years residence for "belonger" status

Telecommunications

fair system of wire, radio-relay and troposcatter routes; HF used extensively for military /Cuban links; 2 Atlantic Ocean satellite stations; 40,300 telephones (0.7 per lOOpopl.); 16AM, 13 FM, and 2 TV stations Defense Forces

Type

people's republic

British dependent territory

Voting strength

ANA, 4 seats; APP, 2 seats; 1 independent