NETHERLANDS ANTILLES (Continued)
Aruba, and Bonaire; tourism on Curaçao, Aruba, and St. Martin; light manufacturing on Curaçao and Aruba
Electric power: 310,000 kW capacity (1981); 1.8 billion kWh produced (1981), 7,346 kWh per capita
Exports: $2.6 billion (f.o.b., 1977); 96% petroleum products, phosphate
Imports: $3.1 billion (c.i.f., 1977); 64% crude petroleum, food, manufactures
Major trade partners: exports—46% US, 2% Canada, 1% Netherlands; imports—35% Venezuela, 11% US, 4% Netherlands (1977)
Aid: bilateral ODA and OOF commitments (1970-79), economic—Western (non-US) countries $353 million
Budget: (1977) public sector current revenues, $278 million; public sector expenditures, $306 million
Monetary conversion rate: 1.8 Netherlands Antillean florins (NAF)=US$1, official
Fiscal year: calendar year
COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: none
Highways: 950 km total; 300 km paved, 650 km gravel and earth
Ports: 4 major (Willemstad, Oranjestad, Caracasbaai, Bullennbaai); 6 minor
Civil air: 10 major transport aircraft, including 3 leased in
Airfields: 7 total, all usable; 7 with permanent-surface runways; 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 2 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
Telecommunications: generally adequate telecom facilities; extensive interisland radio-relay links; 53,000 telephones (21.1 per 100 popl.); 11 AM, 2 FM and 5 TV stations; 2 submarine cables; 1 Atlantic Ocean satellite station
DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: males 15-49, 60,000; 35,000 fit for military service; about 2,600 reach military age (20) annually
Defense is responsibility of the Netherlands
NEW CALEDONIA
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LAND
22,015 km2; 6% cultivable, 22% pasture land, 15% forests, 57% waste or other
WATER
Limits of territorial waters (claimed): 12 nm (fishing 200 nm; exclusive economic zone 200 nm)
Coastline: 2,254 km
PEOPLE
Population: 138,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 0.5%
Nationality: noun—New Caledonian(s); adjective—New Caledonian
Ethnic divisions: Melanesian 42%; French 40%; remainder Vietnamese, Indonesian, Chinese, Polynesian
Religion: natives 90% Christian
Language: Melanesian-Polynesian dialects
Literacy: unknown
Labor force: size unknown; Javanese and Tonkinese laborers were imported for plantations and mines in pre-World War II period; immigrant labor now coming from Wallis Islands, New Hebrides, and French Polynesia
Organized labor: labor not organized
GOVERNMENT
Official name: Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies
Type: French overseas territory; represented in French parliament by one deputy and one senator
Capital: Noumea
Political subdivisions: 4 islands or island group dependencies—Isle of Pines, Loyalty Islands, Huon Islands, Island of New Caledonia
Legal system: French law
Branches: administered by High Commissioner, responsible to French Ministry for Overseas France and Governing Council; Assemblee Territoriale
