1983 Edition

Agriculture

main crops — peanuts (primary cash crop); millet, sorghum, manioc, maize, rice; production of food crops increasing but still insufficient for domestic requirements

Airfields

27 total, 25 usable; 10 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 19 with runways 1,2202,439 m

Branches

Saudi Arabian Land Forces, Royal Saudi Naval Forces, Royal Saudi Air Force, Saudi Arabian National Guard, Coast Guard, Frontier Force

government dominated by the President; unicameral legislature (120-member National Assembly), elected for five years; President elected for five-year term by universal suffrage; judiciary headed by Supreme Court, with members appointed by President

Army, Navy, Air Force

Budget

(1982/83) public revenue $628 million, current expenditures $633 million, capital expenditures $132 million

Capital

Dakar

Civil air

3 major transport aircraft

Coastline

531 km People

Communists

small number of Communists and sympathizers

Elections

presidential and legislative elections held February 1983; Socialist Party holds 111 of 120 seats Political parties and leaders: Socialist Party (PS), Abdou Diouf ; Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS), Abdoulaye Wade; Democratic National Assembly (RND), Cheikh Anta Diop; Senegalese Republican Movement Seychelles (MRS), Boubacar Gueye; African Independence Party (PAI), Majhmout Diop; Independence and Workers Party (PIT), Amath Dansoko; Democratic and Popular Movement (MDP), Mamadou Dia; Ande Jeuf-Revolutionary Movement for the New Democracy (MRDN), Landing Savane; Democratic League-Movement for the Workers Party (LD-MPT), Babacar Sane; Union for Popular Democracy (UDP), Hamedine Racine Guisse; Senegalese Popular Party (PPS), Oumar Wone; minor parties include Socialist Workers Organization (OST) and Communist Workers League (LCT)

Electric power

350,000 kW capacity (1983); 31.2 billion kWh produced (1983), 180 kWh per capita

Ethnic divisions

36% Wolof, 17.5% Fulani, 16.5% Serer, 9% Toucouleur, 9% Diola, 6.5% Mandingo, 4.5% other African, 1% European and Lebanese

Exports

$458 million (f.o.b., 1982 prelim.); peanuts and peanut products, phosphate rock, fish, petroleum products (reexport)

Fiscal year

1 July-30 June Communications

Fishing

catch 230,700 metric tons (1982 prelim.); exports $91,800 metric tons (1982 prelim.), $119.6 million (1981)

GDP

$2.5 billion (1982 est), $410 (est.) per capita; real growth 8.6% in 1982

Government leaders

Abdou DIOUF, President

Highways

13,898 km total; 3,461 km paved, 10,437 km other

Imports

$858 million (f.o.b., 1982 prelim.); food, consumer goods, machinery, transport equipment, petroleum

Inland waterways

1,505 km

Labor force

1,732,000; 70% subsistence agricultural workers; 175,000 wage earners— 40% private sector, 60% government and parapublic

Land boundaries

2,680 km Water

Language

French (official); Wolof, Pulaar, Diola, Mandingo

Legal system

based on French civil law system; constitution adopted 1960, revised 1963 and 1970; judicial review of legislative acts in Supreme Court (which also audits the government's accounting office); legal education at University of Dakar; has not accepted compulsory 1CJ jurisdiction

Limits of territorial waters (claimed)

150

Literacy

10%

Major industries

fishing, agricultural processing plants, light manufacturing, mining

Major trade partners

France, other EC, and franc zone

Member of

Af DB, APC, CEAO, KAMA, ECA, ECOWAS, EIB (associate), FAO, G-77, GATT, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IDB— Islamic Development Bank, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, ITU, NAM, OAU, OGAM, QIC, OMVS (Organization for the Development of the Senegal River Valley), UN, UNESCO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO Economy

Military budget

for fiscal year ending 30 April 1984, $22 billion; about 29% of central government budget Land 196,840 km2; 40% agricultural (12% cultivated); 13% forest; 47% built up, waste, or other

for fiscal year ending 30 June 1983, $60 million; about 11% of central government budget

Military manpower

males 15-49, 2,877,000; 1,645,000 fit for military service; about 100,000 reach military age (18) annually

males 15-49, 1,460,000; 736,000 fit for military service; 68,000 reach military age (18) annually

Monetary conversion rate

about 397.45 Communaute Financiere Africaine francs=US$l (October 1983)

National holiday

Independence Day, 4 •April

Nationality

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

Official name

Republic of Senegal

Organized labor

majority of wage-labor force represented by unions; however, dues-paying membership very limited; three labor central unions; major central is CNTS, an affiliate of governing party Government

Other political or pressure groups

students and teachers occasionally strike

Political subdivisions

10 regions, subdivided into 30 departments, 95 arrondissements

Population

6,541 (July 1984), average annual growth rate 3.2%

Ports

1 major (Dakar), 3 minor

Railroads

1,033 km 1.000-meter gauge; 64 km double track

Religion

75% Muslim, 20% indigenous beliefs, 5% Christian (mostly Roman Catholic)

Suffrage

universal adult

Telecommunications

above-average urban system, using radio-relay and cable; 40,200 telephones (0.8 per 100 popl.); 8 AM stations, no FM, and 1 TV station; 3 submarine cables; 1 Atlantic Ocean satellite station Defense Forces

Type

republic (early in 1982, Senegal and The Gambia formed a loose confederation named Senegambia, which calls for the integration of their armed forces, economies and monetary systems, and foreign policies)