1985 Edition

Agriculture

overall, 20% self-sufficient; generally adequate supplies of vegetables, poultry, milk, and pork products; seasonal or periodic shortages in grain, animal fodder, fruits, other basic foodstuffs; main products— potatoes, cauliflower, grapes, wheat, barley, tomatoes, citrus, cut flowers, green peppers, hogs, poultry, eggs

bananas, pineapples, vegetables, flowers, limited sugarcane for rum

Aid

economic — bilateral ODA and OOF commitments (1970-81) from Western (nonUS) countries, $3.1 billion; no military aid

Airfields

1 usable with permanent-surface runways, 2,440-3,659 m

4 total; 3 usable; 1 with permanentsurface runways; 1 with runways 2,4403,659 m

Branches

Armed Forces, Police, Task Force, Paramilitary Dejima Force

executive, Prefect appointed by Paris; legislative, popularly elected council of 36 members and a Regional Council including all members of the local general council and the locally elected deputies and senators to the French parliament; judicial, under jurisdiction of French judicial system

Budget

(1984) projects $474 million in expenditures, $476 million in revenues

(1981) expenditures, $215 million

Capital

Fort-de-France

Civil air

8 major transport aircraft

no major transport aircraft

Coastline

290 km People

Communists

1,000 estimated

Elections

General Council election normally is held every five years; last General Council election took place in June 1981; regional assembly elections held February Political parties and leaders: Rally for the Republic (RPR), Edmond Valcin; Progressive Party of Martinique (PPM), Aime Cesaire; Communist Party of Martinique (PCM), Armand Nicolas; Democratic Union of Martinique (UDM), Leon-Laurent Valere

Electric power

157,000 kW capacity (1984); 703 million kWh produced (1984), 1,972 kWh per capita

66,000 kW capacity (1984); 319 million kWh produced (1984), 970 kWh per capita

Ethnic divisions

90% African and AfricanCaucasian-Indian mixture, 5% Caucasian, less than 5% East Indian, Lebanese, Chinese

Exports

$397.6 million (f.o.b., 1983); clothing, textiles, ships, printed matter

$123 million (1981); refined petroleum products, bananas, rum, pineapples

Fiscal year

1 January-31 December Communications

calendar year Communications

GDP

$1.12 billion (1982), $3,145 per capita (1982); 66.2% private consumption, 26.0% gross investment; 18.4% government consumption, 16.2% net foreign sector; change in stocks 5.5%; in 1982 real GDP growth was 2.3%

$1.38 billion (19*80), $4,543 per capita

Government leader

Jean CHEVANCE, Prefect of the Republic (since 1981)

Highways

1,292 km total; 1,179 km paved (asphalt), 77 km crushed stone or gravel, 35 km improved and unimproved earth

1,680 km total; 1,300 km paved, 380 km gravel and earth

Imports

$732.5 million (c.i.f., 1983)

$703 million (1981); petroleum products, foodstuffs, construction materials, vehicles, clothing and other consumer goods

Labor force

100,000; 31.7% service industry, 29.4% construction and public works, 13.1% agriculture, 7.3% industry, 2.2% fisheries, 16.3% other; 14% unemployed

Language

French, Creole patois

Legal system

French legal system; highest court is a court of appeal based in Martinique with jurisdiction over Guadeloupe, French Guiana, and Martinique

Limits of territorial waters (claimed)

12 nm (fishing 200 nm; exclusive economic zone 200 nm)

Literacy

over 70%

Major industries

tourism, ship repair yard, clothing, building industry, food manufacturing, textiles

construction, rum, cement, oil refining, light industry, tourism

Major trade partners

72% EC (32% FRG, 17% UK, 10% Italy); 4% US (1980)

exports — 56% France (1978); imports— 62% France, 28% EC and franc zone, 4.5% US, 5.5% other (1977)

Member of

WFTU Economy

Military budget

for fiscal year ending 31 December 1984, $22.8 million; about 5.6% of central government budget Sec regions) mip III Land 1,100 km2; slightly smaller than Rhode Island; 31% crop, 29% forest, 24% waste or built on, 16% pasture Water

Military manpower

males 15-49, 89,000; 73,000 fit for military service

males 15-49, 84,000

Monetary conversion rate

2.0 Maltese pounds=US$l (September 1984)

9.65 French francs=US$l (January 1985)

Nationality

noun — Martiniquais (sing, and pi.); adjective — Martiniquais

Official name

Department of Martinique

Organized labor

1 1% of labor force Government

Other political or pressure groups

Proletarian Action Group (GAP), Socialist Revolution Group (GRS), Martinique Independence Movement (MIM), Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance (ARC)

Political subdivisions

3 arrondissements; 34 communes, each with a locally elected municipal council

Population

327,000 (July 1985), average annual growth rate 0. 1 %

Ports

1 major (Valletta), 1 secondary, 1 minor

1 major (Fort-de-France), 5 minor

Railroads

none

Religion

95% Roman Catholic, 5% Hindu and pagan African

Shortages

most consumer and industrial needs (fuels and raw materials) must be imported

Suffrage

universal over age 18

Supply

various facilities and equipment turned over by the UK in 1965; has received 2 patrol boats, small arms, and mortars from Libya; vehicles and engineer equipment from Italy

Telecommunications

modern automatic telecom system centered in Valletta; 82,700 telephones (26.2 per 100 popl.); 8 AM, 5 FM, 2 TV stations; 1 coaxial submarine cable Defense Forces

domestic facilities are adequate; 68,900 telephones (21.5 per 100 popl.); interisland radio-relay links to Guadeloupe, Dominica, and St. Lucia; 1 Atlantic Ocean satellite station; 1 AM, 4 FM, 7 TV stations Defense Forces Defense is responsibility of France

Type

overseas department and region of France; represented by three deputies in the French National Assembly and two senators in the Senate

Voting strength

RPR, 1 seat in French National Assembly; UDF, 1 seat; Socialist Party, 1 seat