1981 Edition
CIA World Factbook 1981 (Internet Archive)
Geography
Area
404 km2; 54% arable land, nearly all of it is under cultivation, 17% wood and forest land, 29% other (mainly reefs and other surfaces unsuited for agriculture); 40 granitic and 50 or more coralline islands
Coastline
491 km (Mahe Island 93 km)
Limits of territorial waters (claimed)
12 nm (economic, including fishing, 200 nm)
People and Society
Nationality
noun — Seychellois (sing, and pi.); adjective —
Population
66,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 1.9%
Economy
Agriculture
main crops — peanuts, millet, sorghum, manioc, rice; peanuts primary cash crop; production of food crops increasing but still insufficient for domestic requirements
Budget
(1981/82) public revenue $432.7 million, current expenditures $432.7 million, development expenditures $191.7 million
Electric power
310,850 kW capacity (1981); 1.106 billion kWh produced (1981), 92 kWh per capita
Exports
$570.3 million (f.o.b., 1980 est); peanuts and peanut products; phosphate rock; canned fish
Fiscal year
1 July-30 June
Fishing
catch 359,230 metric tons (1980); exports $153.8 million (1980)
GDP
$2.1 billion (1980), $378 per capita; real growth -11.9% in 1980; nominal growth -3.9% in 1980
Imports
$1,022.2 million (c.i.f., 1980 est.); food, consumer goods, machinery, transport equipment
Major industries
fishing, agricultural processing plants, light manufacturing, mining
Major trade partners
France, EC (other than France), and franc zone
Monetary conversion rate
francs; about 211.3 Communaute Financiere Africaine francs=US$l (1980)
Communications
Airfields
28 total, 28 usable; 11 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 20 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
Civil air
5 major transport aircraft
Highways
13,898 km total; 3,461 km paved, 10,437 km other
Inland waterways
1,505 km
Military budget
for fiscal year ending 30 June 1981, $70.7 million; about 7.4% of central government budget COMOROS J\ r (MADAGASCAR
Military manpower
males 15-49, 1,324,000; 668,000 fit for military service; 61,000 reach military age (18) annually
Ports
1 major (Dakar), 3 minor
Railroads
1,033 km meter gauge (1.00 m); 64 km double track
Telecommunications
above average urban system; 40,200 telephones (0.8 per 100 popl.); 8 AM stations, no FM, and 1 TV station; 2 submarine cables; 1 Atlantic Ocean satellite station DEFENSE FORCES