$1--120.00 (December
1990), 82.60 (1990), 79.98 (1989), 76.45 (1988), 79.67 (1987), 87.64
(1986), 101.26 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 4,885 km total; 460 km paved, 1,725 km gravel and/or
improved earth, 2,700 km unimproved

_#_Inland waterways: Lac Kivu navigable by shallow-draft barges and
native craft

_#_Civil air: 1 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 8 total, 8 usable; 3 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 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; 6,600 telephones; stations--2 AM, 5 FM, no TV;
earth stations--1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT and 1 SYMPHONIE

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army, Gendarmerie

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 1,651,224; 842,480 fit for
military service; no conscription

_#_Defense expenditures: $37 million, 1.6% of GDP (1988 est.)
_%_
_@_Saint Helena
(dependent territory of the UK)
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 410 km2; land area: 410 km2; includes Ascension, Gough
Island, Inaccessible Island, Nightingale Island, and Tristan da Cunha

_#_Comparative area: slightly more than 2.3 times the size of
Washington, DC

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 60 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Climate: tropical; marine; mild, tempered by trade winds

_#_Terrain: rugged, volcanic; small scattered plateaus and plains

_#_Natural resources: fish; Ascension is a breeding ground for sea
turtles and sooty terns; no minerals

_#_Land use: arable land 7%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and
pastures 7%; forest and woodland 3%; other 83%

_#_Environment: very few perennial streams

_#_Note: located 1,920 km west of Angola, about two-thirds of the
way between South America and Africa; Napoleon Bonaparte's place of
exile and burial; the remains were taken to Paris in 1840

_*_People
_#_Population: 6,695 (July 1991), growth rate 0.6% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 13 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 8 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

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

_#_Infant mortality rate: 46 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 70 years male, 75 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 1.4 children born/woman (1991)

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