1984 Edition
CIA World Factbook 1984 (Internet Archive)
Geography
Agriculture
main cash crops — coffee, cocoa, cotton; major food crops — yams, cassava, corn, beans, rice, millet, sorghum, fish
Airfields
11 total, 11 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways 2,440-3,659 m
Branches
Army, Navy, Air Force
Budget
(1982 proj.), revenues, $243.1 million; current expenditures, $219 million, development expenditures $89 million
Civil air
no major transport aircraft
Electric power
138,000 kW capacity (1983); 65 million kWh produced (1983), 25 kWh per capita; also imports 250 million kWh from Ghana
Exports
$202 million (f.o.b., 1982); phosphates, cocoa, coffee, and palm kernels
Fiscal year
calendar year Communications
Fishing
catch 2,000 metric tons (1979)
GNP
$950 million (1982 est. ), about $340 per capita; —3.2% real growth in 1982
Highways
7,464 km total; 1,320 km paved, 1,280 km improved earth, remainder unimproved earth
Imports
$290 million (f.o.b., 1982); consumer goods, fuels, machinery, tobacco, foodstuffs
Inland waterways
section of Mono River and about 50 km of coastal lagoons and tidal creeks
Major industries
phosphate mining, agricultural processing, cement, handicrafts, textiles, beverages
Major trade partners
mostly France and other EC countries
Military budget
for fiscal year ending 31 December 1983, $14.2 million; 7.2% of central government budget SOLOMON x ISLANDS VANUATU CALEDONIA • USTRALIA , WESTERN ' SAMOA FU? TONGA *Nnku'il«fi
Military manpower
males 15-49, 641,000; 334,000 fit for military service; no conscription
Monetary conversion rate
397. 45 Communaute Financiere Africaine (CFA) francs=US$l (October 1983)
Ports
1 major (Lome), 1 minor
Railroads
442 km 1.000-meter gauge, single track
Telecommunications
fair system based on network of open-wire lines supplemented by radio-relay routes; 7,870 telephones (0.3 per 100 pop!.); 2 AM, no FM, and 3 TV stations; 1 Atlantic Ocean satellite station and 1 SYMPHONIE station Defense Forces