other NA%

_#_Environment: subject to cyclones during rainy season

_#_Note: part of Comoro Archipelago; located in the Mozambique Channel
about halfway between Africa and Madagascar

_*_People
_#_Population: 75,027 (July 1991), growth rate 3.9% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 50 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 12 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 87 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 54 years male, 59 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 6.8 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun--Mahorais (sing., pl.); adjective--Mahoran

_#_Religion: Muslim 99%; remainder Christian, mostly Roman Catholic

_#_Language: Mahorian (a Swahili dialect), French

_#_Literacy: NA% (male NA%, female NA%)

_#_Labor force: NA

_#_Organized labor: NA

_*_Government
_#_Long-form name: Territorial Collectivity of Mayotte

_#_Type: territorial collectivity of France

_#_Capital: Dzaoudzi

_#_Administrative divisions: none (territorial collectivity of France)

_#_Independence: none (territorial collectivity of France)

_#_Constitution: 28 September 1958 (French Constitution)

_#_Legal system: French law

_#_National holiday: Taking of the Bastille, 14 July (1789)

_#_Executive branch: government commissioner

_#_Legislative branch: unicameral General Council (Conseil
General)

_#_Judicial branch: Supreme Court (Tribunal Superieur d'Appel)

_#_Leaders:

Chief of State--President Francois MITTERRAND (since 21 May
1981);

Head of Government--Prefect, Representative of the French
Government Daniel LIMODIN (since NA 1990);
President of the General Council Youssouf BAMANA (since NA 1976)

_#_Political parties and leaders:
Mahoran Popular Movement (MPM), Younoussa BAMANA;
Party for the Mahoran Democratic Rally (PRDM), Daroueche MAOULIDA;
Mahoran Rally for the Republic (RMPR), Mansour KAMARDINE;
Union of the Center (UDC)

_#_Suffrage: universal at age 18

_#_Elections:

General Council--last held NA June 1988 (next to be held June
1993);
results--percent of vote by party NA;
seats--(17 total) MPM 9, RPR 6, other 2;

French Senate--last held on 24 September 1989 (next to be held
September 1992);
results--percent of vote by party NA;
seats--(1 total) MPM 1;

French National Assembly--last held 5 and 12 June 1988 (next