1983 Edition
CIA World Factbook 1983 (Internet Archive)
Geography
Airfields
77 total, 75 usable; 7 with permanent-surface runways; 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 20 with runways 1,2202,439 m
Branches
Army, Navy, Air Force
Budget
(1982) revenues $1.4 billion, current expenditures $0.5 billion; capital expenditures $0.6 billion
Civil air
8 major transport aircraft
Fiscal year
calendar year Communications
Highways
6,500 km total; 300 km paved, 2,600 km gravel and improved and 3,600 km unimproved
Inland waterways
approximately 1,600 km perennially navigable
Military budget
for fiscal year ending 31 December 1981, $88.3 million; 7.2% of central government budget
Military manpower
males 15-49, 227,000; 117,000 fit for military service; 7,000 reach military age (20) annually
Monetary conversion rate
422.25 Communaute Financiere Africaine (CFA) francs=US$l (February 1984)
Pipelines
crude oil, 270 km
Ports
2 major (Owendo and Port-Gentil), 3 minor
Railroads
970 km 1.437-meter standard gauge under construction; 180 km are completed
Telecommunications
adequate system of open-wire, radio-relay, tropospheric scatter links and radiocommunication stations; 2 Atlantic Ocean satellite stations; 6 AM, 6 FM, and 8 TV stations; 1 1 ,600 telephones ( 1 . 2 per 100 popl.) Defense Forces