RWANDA (Continued)
Elections: national elections including constitutional referendum and presidential plebiscite held December 1978; National Development Council elected in December 1981
Political parties and leaders: National Revolutionary Movement for Development (MRND), General Habyarimana (officially not a party—a "development movement" only)
Communists: no Communist party Member of: AFDB, EAMA, FAO, G-77, GATT, IBRD, ICAO, ICO, IDA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IPU, ITU, NAM, OAU, OCAM, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WMO, WTO
ECONOMY
GDP: $1,388 million (1981), $270 per capita; real average annual growth rate (1970-77), 5.5%
Agriculture: cash crops—mainly coffee, tea, some pyrethrum; main food crops—bananas, cassava; stock raising; self-sufficiency declining; country imports foodstuffs
Major industries: mining of cassiterite (tin ore), wolfram (tungsten ore), agricultural processing, and light consumer goods
Electric power: 38,000 kW capacity (1980); 160 million kWh produced (1980), 31 kWh per capita
Exports: $115 million (f.o.b., 1981 est.); mainly coffee, tea, cassiterite, wolfram, pyrethrum
Imports: $188 million (c.i.f., 1981 est.); textiles, foodstuffs, machines, equipment
Major trade partners: US, Belgium, West Germany, Kenya
External debt: $170 million (1980), external debt ratio 3.8% (1980)
Budget: (1981) revenues $146.0 million; current expenditures $146.0 million, development expenditures $32.3 million
Monetary conversion rate: 92.84 Rwanda francs=US$1 (official), 1979
Fiscal year: calendar year
COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: none
Highways: 9,020 km total; 460 km paved, 2,700 km gravel and/or improved earth, remainder unimproved
Inland waterways: Lake Kivu navigable by barges and native craft
Civil air: 3 major transport aircraft
Airfields: 8 total, 8 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 2 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
Telecommunications: fair system with low-capacity radio-relay system centered on Kigali; 4,600 telephones (0.1 per 100 popl.); 2 AM, 1 FM, no TV stations; SYMPHONIE satellite station, INTELSAT terminal under construction
DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: males 15-49, 1,151,000; 583,000 fit for military service; no conscription
Military budget: for fiscal year ending 31 December 1981, $22.1 million; 14% of central government budget
