1985 Edition

Agriculture

main crops — peanuts (primary cash crop); millet, sorghum, manioc, maize, rice, livestock; deficit production of food

Airfields

25 total, 22 usable; 10 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways 2,4403,659 m, 17 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Amir ante

Mahe Isles ", • Island

Branches

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

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, paramilitary Gendarmerie

Budget

(1983/84) public revenues, $500 million; current expenditures, $517 million; capital expenditures, $99 million

Capital

Dakar

Civil air

3 major transport aircraft

Coastline

531 km People

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; 13 other small uninfluential parties Senegal (continued) Seychelles Communist*: small number of Communists and sympathizers

Electric power

184,000 kW capacity (1984); 725 million kWh produced (1984), 110 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

$438 million (f.o.b., 1983); peanuts and peanut products, phosphate rock, fish, petroleum products (reexport)

Fiscal year

1 July-30 June Communications

Fishing

catch 2 1 3,000 metric tons ( 1 982); exports $120 million (1982)

GDP

$2.5 billion (1983), $400(1983)per capita; real growth - 14.3% in 1983

Government leaders

Abdou DIOUF, President (since January 1981)

Highways

13,898 km total; 3,461 km paved, 6,741 km gravel or graded earth, 3,696 km of unimproved roads

Imports

$820 million (f.o.b., 1983); 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, 1970, and 1981 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 ICJ jurisdiction

Limits of territorial waters (claimed)

150 nm (fishing, 200 nm)

Literacy

10%

Major industries

fishing, agricultural processing plants, light manufacturing, mining

Major trade partners

France, other EC, and franc zone

Member of

AfDB, 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, OCAM, 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 June 1985, $66.9 million; about 8.8% of central government budget Aldabra .Islands VICTORIA*

Military manpower

males 15-49, 2,981,000; 1,704,000 fit for military service; about 103,000 reach military age (18) annually Land 196,192 km2; the size of South Dakota; 40% agricultural (12% cultivated); 13% forest; 47% built up, waste, or other

males 15-49, 1,505,000; 759,000 fit for military service; 70,000 reach military age (18) annually

Monetary conversion rate

about 479.8 Communaute Financiere Africaine (CFA) francs=US$l (December 1984)

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, duespaying membership very limited; major confederation is National Confederation of Senegalese Labor (CNTS), an affiliate of governing party Government

Other political or pressure groups

students, teachers, labor, Muslim Brotherhood

Political subdivisions

10 regions, subdivided into 30 departments, 95 arrondissements

Population

6,755,000 (July 1985), average annual growth rate 3.2%

Ports

1 major (Dakar), 3 minor

Railroads

1,034 km 1.000-meter gauge; 70 km double track

Religion

92% Muslim, 6% indigenous beliefs, 2% 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, 1 TV station; 3 submarine cables; 1 Atlantic Ocean satellite station Defense Forces

Type

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