1985 Edition

Agriculture

livestock, forest products, cereals, potatoes, sugar beets; 84% self-sufficient

food importer; main crops fish, fruits, vegetables

Aid

donor — bilateral economic aid commitments (OD A and OOF), $ 1 . 1 billion ( 1 970-82)

economic — bilateral commitments, including Ex-Im (1970-82), from US, $42 million; from other Western countries (197082), $136 million; no military aid

Airfields

55 total, 53 usable; 17 with permanent-surface runways; 5 with runways 2,4403,659 m, 5 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

61 total, 56 usable; 29 with permanent-surface runways; 3 with runways 2,4403,659 m, 23 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Area

83,835 km-; slightly smaller than Maine; 38% forest; 26% meadow and pasture; 20% cultivated; 15% waste or urban; 1% inland water

Branches

bicameral legislature (Federal Assembly— Federal Council, National Council), directly elected President whose functions are largely representational, independent federal judiciary

Army, Flying Division

bicameral legislature (Parliament— apppointed Senate, elected House of Assembly); executive (Prime Minister and Cabinet); judiciary

Royal Bahamas Defense Force (a coast guard element only), Royal Bahamas Police Force

Budget

expenditures, $24.31 billion; revenues, $19.03 billion; deficit, $5.28 billion (1984)

(1982 actual) revenues, $305 million; expenditures, $369 million

Capital

Vienna

Nassau (New Providence Island)

Civil air

25 major transport aircraft

9 major transport aircraft

Coastline

3,542 km (New Providence Island, 76km) People

Communists

meml>ership 15,000 est.; activists 7,000-8,000

none known

Crude steel

4.4 million metric tons produced (1983)

Elections

presidential, every six years (next 1986); parliamentary, every four years (next 1987) Political parties and leaders: Socialist Party of Austria (SPO), Fred Sinowatz, chairman; Austrian People's Party (OVP), Alois Mock, chairman; Liberal Party (FPO), Norbert Steger, chairman; Communist Party (KPO), Franz Muhri, chairman; Alternative List Austria (ALO), no leader; United Greens (VGO), Josef Buchner, leader

House of Assembly (June 1982); next election due constitutionally in five years Political parties and leaders: Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), predominantly black, Lynden O. Pindling; Free National Movement (FNM), Kendal Isaacs, Cecil WallaceWhitfield

Electric power

14,610,000 kW capacity (1984); 43.750 billion kWh produced (1984), 5,800 kWh per capita

348,000 kW capacity (1984); 880 million kWh produced (1984), 3,860 kWh per capita

Ethnic divisions

99.4% German, 0.3% Croatian, 0.2% Slovene, 0.1% other

85% black, 15% white

Exports

$15.43 billion (f.o.b., 1983); iron and steel products, machinery and equipment, lumber, textiles, paper products, chemicals

$2.5 billion (f.o.b., 1983); pharmaceuticals, cement, rum, crayfish

Fiscal year

calendar year Communications

calendar year Communications

GNP

$67.24 billion (1983), $8,904 per capita; 57% private consumption, 19% public consumption, 22%- investment; 1983 real GNP growth rate, 1.9%

$1.4 billion (1982), $6,581 per capita; real growth rate 2% (1982)

Government leaders

Rudolf KIRCHSCHLAGER, President (since July 1974); Fred SINOWATZ, Chancellor (since May 1983), leads a Socialist/Freedom Party of Austria coalition

Lynden Oscar PINDLING, Prime Minister (since 1969); Sir Gerald C. CASH, Governor General (since 1979)

Highways

95,412 km total; 34,612 km are the classified network (including 1,012 km of autobahn, 10,400 km of federal and 23,200 km of provincial roads); of this number, approximately 21,812 km are paved and 12,800 km are unpaved; additionally, there are 60,800km of communal roads(mostly gravel, crushed stone, earth)

2,400 km total; 1,350 km paved, 1,050 km gravel

Imports

$19.40 billion (c.i.f., 1983); machinery and equipment, chemicals, textiles and clothing, petroleum, foodstuffs, cars Austria (continued) The Bahamas

$3.0 billion (f.o.b., 1983); food stuffs, manufactured goods, mineral fuels

Inland waterways

427 km

Labor force

2.9 million (1983); 41.1% industry and crafts, 57.55% services, 1.35% agriculture and forestry; 4.1% unemployed (October 1984); an estimated 200,000 Austrians are employed in other European countries; foreign laborers in Austria number 142,030(1984)

82,000(1982); 30% government, 25% hotels and restaurants, 10% business services, 6% agriculture; 30% unemployment (1983)

Land boundaries

2,582 km People

Language

German

English; some Creole among Haitian immigrants

Legal system

civil law system with Roman law origin; constitution adopted 1920, repromulgated 1945; judicial review of legislative actsby a Constitutional Court; separate administrative and civil/penal supreme courts; legal education at Universities of Vienna, Graz, Innsbruck, Salzburg, and Linz; has not accepted compulsory 1C) jurisdiction

based on English law

Limits of territorial waters (claimed)

3 nm (fishing 200 nm)

Literacy

98%

89%

Major industries

foods, iron and steel, machinery, textiles, chemicals, electrical, paper and pulp; beer sales, 7,682,150 hectoliters (1981)

banking, tourism, cement, oil refining and transhipment, lumber, salt production, rum, aragonite, pharmaceuticals, spiral weld, and steel pipe

Major trade partners

(1983) imports — 41.5% FRG, 8.9% Italy, 6.2% East Europe (excluding USSR), 4.8% Switzerland, 4.3% USSR, 3.4% US, exports— 30.8% FRG, 8.9% Italy, 8.2% East Europe (excluding USSR), 7.4% OPEC, 6.8% Switzerland

exports— US 90%, UK 10%; imports— Iran 30%, Nigeria 20%, US 10%, EC 10%, Gabon 10% (1981)

Member of

ADB, Council of Europe, DAC, ECE, EFTA, EMA, ESRO (observer), FAO, GATT, IAEA, IDB— Inter-American Development Bank, IBRD, ICAC, ICAO, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, International Lead and Zinc Study Group, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, ITU, IWC— International Wheat Council, OECD, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, WSG Economy

CARICOM, CDB, Commonwealth, FAO, G-77, GATT(de facto), IBRD, ICAO, IDB — Inter-American Development Bank, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTERPOL, ITU, NAM, OAS, PAHO, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO Economy

Military budget

for fiscal year ending 31 December 1984, $770 million; about 3.6% of the proposed federal budget 200km Great Inagua See regional mip 111 Land 13,934 km2; about the size of Connecticut; nation is made up an archipelago of some 700 islands and keys; 29% forest; 1% cultivated; 70% built on, wasteland, and other Water

for fiscal year ending 31 December 1982 $28.7 million, about 7.7% of the total budget

Military manpower

males 15-49, 1,944,000; 1,646,000 fit for military service; 65,000 reach military age (19) annually

Monetary conversion rate

17.96 schillings=US$l (1983 average); 20.50 shillings=US$l (third quarter 1984)

1 Bahamian dollar=US$l (February 1984)

National holiday

26 October

Independence Day, 10 July

Nationality

noun — Austrian(s); adjective — Austrian

noun — Bahamian(s); adjective— Bahamian

Official name

Republic of Austria

The Commonwealth of The Bahamas

Organized labor

25% organized Government

Organized lalxir

61.4% of wage and salary workers (1983) Government

Other political or pressure group

Vanguard Nationalist and Socialist Party (VNSP), a small leftist party headed by John McCartney

Other political or pressure groups

Federal Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Austrian Trade Union Federation (primarily Socialist); three composite leagues of the Austrian People's Party (OVP) representing business, lal>or, and farmers; theOVPoriented League of Austrian Industrialists; Roman Catholic Church, including its chief lay organization, Catholic Action

Pipelines

554 km crude oil; 2,61 1 km natural gas; 171 km refined products

Political subdivisions

9 states (lander) including the capital

Population

7,540,000 (July 1985), average annual growth rate 0%

232,000 (July 1985), average annual growth rate 2.0%

Ports

2 major river (Vienna, Linz)

2 major (Freeport, Nassau), 9 minor

Railroads

6,497 km total; 5.857 km government owned; 5,403 km 1.435-meter standard gauge of which 3,017 km electrified and 1,520 km double tracked; 454 km 0.760meter narrow gauge of which 91 km electrified; 640 km privately owned 1.435and 1.000-meter gauge

none

Religion

88% Roman Catholic, 6% Protestant, 6% none or other

Baptist 29%, Anglican 23%, Roman Catholic 22%, smaller groups of other Protestants, Greek Orthodox, and Jews

Suffrage

universal over age 19; compulsory for presidential elections

universal over age 18

Telecommunications

highly developed and efficient; extensive TV and radiobroadcast systems with 160 AM, 536 FM, and 988 TV stations; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT station; 3.33 million telephones (44.1 per 100 popl.) Defense Forces

telecom facilities highly developed, including 78,150 telephones(35 per lOOpopl.) in totally automatic system; tropospheric scatter link with Florida; 3 AM and 2 FM stations; 1 TV station; 3 coaxial submarine cables Defense Forces

Type

federal republic

independent commonwealth recognizing Elizabeth II as Chief of State

Voting strength

(1983 election, preliminary) parliamentary— SPO 47.&5%, OVP 43.22%, FPO 4.98%, VGO 1.93%, ALO 1.26%, KPO 0.66%

73,309 registered voters (July 1977); (1982 election) House of Assembly—PLP (55%) 32 seats, FNM (45%) 11 seats, others (3%) 0 seats