1986 Edition

Agriculture

livestock; limited commercial crops, including fruit and vegetables

Airfields

12 total, 10 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 4 with runways 1, 220-2,439 m

Area

22,000 km2; about the size of New Hampshire; 89% desert waste, 10% permanent pasture, less than 1% cultivated

Branches

legislative — 65-member parliament (National Assembly), executive, judiciary

Army, Navy, Air Force; paramilitary National Security Force

Budget

(1983) revenues, $118 million; grants, $27 million; current expenditures, $120 million; development expenditures, $32 million; extrabudgetary expenditures, $21 million

Capital

Djibouti

Civil air

1 major transport aircraft

Coastline

314 km (includes offshore islands) Communists: possibly a few sympathizers People

Elections

parliament elected May 1982 Political party and leader: Peoples Progress Assembly (RPP), Hassan Gouled Aptidon; sole legal party

Electric power

80,100 kW capacity (1985); 140 million kWh produced (1985), 471 kWh per capita

Ethnic divisions

60% Somali (Issa); 35% Afar, 5% French, Arab, Ethiopian, and Italian

Exports

$88 million (f.o.b., 1984 prelim.); hides and skins and transit of coffee; a large portion consists of reexports to foreign residents of Djibouti

Fiscal year

calendar year Gommunications

GDP

$369 million (1983); per capita income $1,168(1983)

Government leader

Hassan GOULED Aptidon, President (since June 1977)

Highways

2,800 km total; 279 km bituminous surface, 229 km improved earth, 2,292 km unimproved earth

Imports

$200 million (f.o.b., 1984 prelim.); almost all domestically needed goods — foods, machinery, transport equipment

Infant mortality rate

140/1,000(1985)

Labor force

a small number of semiskilled laborers at port

Land boundaries

517 km Water

Language

French (official); Somali and Afar widely used

Legal system

based on French civil law system, traditional practices, and Islamic law; partial constitution ratified January 1981 by National Assembly

Life expectancy

50

Limits of territorial waters (claimed)

12 nm (200 nm exclusive economic zone) Government

Literacy

17%

Major industries

transit trade, port, railway, services; live cattle and sheep exports to Saudi Arabia; secondary services to French military

Member of

AfDB, Arab League, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IDE— Islamic Development Bank, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTERPOL, ITU, NAM, OAU, QIC, UN, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WMO Economy

Military budget

for fiscal year ending 31 December 1984, $27.8 million; about 22% of central government budget

Military manpower

males 15-49, about 66,000; about 39,000 fit for military service

Monetary conversion rate

177.67 Djibouti francs=US$l (October 1984)

National holiday

27 June

Nationality

noun — Djiboutian(s); adjective— Djiboutian

Natural resources

none

Official name

Republic of Djibouti

Organized labor

3,000 railway workers organized

Political subdivisions

5 cercles (districts)

Population

304,000 (July 1986), average annual growth rate 2.5%

Ports

1 major (Djibouti)

Railroads

the Ethiopian-Djibouti railroad extends for 97 km through Djibouti

Religion

94% Muslim, 6% Christian

Suffrage

universal adult

Telecommunications

fair system of urban facilities in Djibouti and radio-relay stations at outlying places; 7,200 telephones (2.0 per 100 popl.); 2 AM stations, 1 FM station, 2 TV stations; 1 Indian Ocean satellite ground station, 1 Arab satellite station, 1 submarine cable to Saudi Arabia under construction Defense Forces

Type

republic