1984 Edition

Agriculture

livestock; limited commercial crops, including fruit and vegetables

Airfields

12 total, 11 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 4 with runways 1,2202,439 m

Area

23,310 km2; 89% desert waste; 10% permanent pasture; less than 1% cultivated

Branches

legislative — 65-member parliament (National Assembly), executive, judiciary

Army, Navy, Air Force, Gendarmerie Corps

Budget

1980 revenues $68 million, current expenditures $62 million, development expenditures $6 million

Capital

Djibouti

Civil air

1 major transport aircraft

Coastline

314 km (includes offshore islands) Communists: possibly a few sympathizers People

Elections

Parliament elected May 1982 Political parties and leaders: Peoples Progress Assembly (RPP), Hassan Gouled

Electric power

70,000 kW capacity (1983); 230 million kWh produced (1983), 730 kWh per capita

Ethnic divisions

60% Somali (Issa), 5% Afar 5% French Arab, Ethiopian, and Italian

Exports

$66 million (1981); hides and skins and transit of coffee; values plummeted after railroad line was cut

Fiscal year

calendar year Communications

GDP

$116 million (1980); per capita income $400

Government leader

HASSAN Gouled Aptidon, President

Highways

2,800 km total; 279 km bituminous surface, 229 km improved earth; 2,292 km unimproved earth

Imports

$152 million (1981); almost all domestically needed goods — foods, machinery, transport equipment

Labor force

a small number of semiskilled laborers at port

Land boundaries

517 km Water

Language

French (official), Somali, Afar, and Arabic all widely used

Legal system

based on French civil law system, traditional practices, and Islamic law; partial constitution ratified January 1981 by National Assembly

Limits of territorial waters (claimed)

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

Literacy

20%

Major industries

transit trade, port, railway, services; live cattle and sheep exports to Arabia; secondary services to French military

Member of

AfDB, Arab League, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IDE— Islamic Development Bank, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTERPOL, ITU, NAM, OAU, QIC, UN, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WMO Economy

Military budget

for fiscal year ending 31 December 1984, $27.8 million; about 22% of central government budget

Military manpower

males 15-49, about 63,000; about 37,000 fit for military service

Monetary conversion rate

177.67 Djibouti francs=US$l (February 1984)

National holiday

27 June

Nationality

noun — Djiboutian(s); adjective — Djiboutian

Official name

Republic of Djibouti

Organized labor

some 3,000 railway workers organized Government

Political subdivisions

5 cercles (districts)

Population

289,000 (July 1984) average annual growth rate —8.8%

Ports

1 major (Djibouti)

Railroads

the Ethiopian-Djibouti railroad extends for 97 km through Djibouti

Religion

94% Muslim, 6% Christian

Suffrage

universal

Telecommunications

fair system of urban facilities in Djibouti and radio-relay stations at outlying places; 4,400 telephones (1.2 per 100 popl.); 2 AM stations, 1 FM station, 1 TV station; 1 INTELSAT satellite station at Ambouli, working with Indian Ocean satellite Defense Forces Defense is the responsibility of France

Type

republic