GUYANA (Continued)
COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: 110 km total, all single track; 80 km 0.914-meter gauge, 30 km 1.067-meter gage
Highways: 7,665 km total; 550 km paved, 5,000 km gravel, 1,525 km earth, and 590 km unimproved
Inland waterways: 5,900 km; Demerara River navigable to Mackenzie by ocean steamers, others by ferryboats, small craft only
Ports: 1 major (Georgetown), 3 minor Civil air: 6 major transport aircraft, including 2 leased in
Airfields: 88 total, 88 usable; 4 with permanent-surface runways; 13 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
Telecommunications: highly developed telecom system with radio-relay network and over 27,000 telephones (3.3 per 100 popl.); tropospheric scatter link to Trinidad; 6 AM, 2 FM and no TV stations; 1 Atlantic Ocean satellite station
DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: males 15-49, 215,000; 172,000 fit for military service
Military budget: for fiscal year ending 31 December 1981, $22.7 million; 9.0% of central government budget
HAITI
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LAND
27,713 km2; 31% cultivated, 18% rough pastures, 7% forested, 44% unproductive
Land boundary: 361 km
WATER
Limits of territorial waters (claimed): 12 nm (fishing 200 nm; 200 nm exclusive economic zone)
Coastline: 1,771 km
PEOPLE
Population: 6,054,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 2.2%
Nationality: noun—Haitian(s); adjective—Haitian
Ethnic divisions: over 90% Negro, nearly 10% mulatto, few whites
Religion: 10% Protestant, 75% to 80% Roman Catholic (of which an overwhelming majority also practice Voodoo)
Language: French (official) spoken by only 10% of population; all speak Creole
Literacy: 10% to 12%
Labor force: 2.3 million (est. 1975); 79% agriculture, 14% services, 7% industry, 5% unemployed; shortage of skilled labor; unskilled labor abundant
Organized labor: less than 1% of labor force
GOVERNMENT
Official name: Republic of Haiti
Type: republic under the 14-year dictatorship of Francois Duvalier who was succeeded upon his death on 21 April 1971 by his son, Jean-Claude
Capital: Port-au-Prince
Political subdivisions: five departments (despite constitutional provision for nine)
Legal system: based on Roman civil law system; constitution adopted 1964 and amended 1971; legal education at State University in Port-au-Prince and private law colleges
