The 1990 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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СКАЧАТЬ agriculture, 40% industry and commerce (1986)

      Organized labor: Central Council of Albanian Trade Unions, 610,000 members

      - Government

       Long-form name: People's Socialist Republic of Albania

      Type: Communist state (Stalinist)

      Capital: Tirane

      Administrative divisions: 26 districts (rrethe, singular—rreth);

       Berat, Dibre, Durres, Elbasan, Fier, Gjirokaster, Gramsh, Kolonje,

       Korce, Kruje, Kukes, Lezhe, Librazhd, Lushnje, Mat, Mirdite,

       Permet, Pogradec, Puke, Sarande, Shkoder, Skrapar, Tepelene, Tirane,

       Tropoje, Vlore

      Independence: 28 November 1912 (from Turkey); People's Socialist

       Republic of Albania declared 11 January 1946

      Constitution: 27 December 1976

      Legal system: judicial review of legislative acts only in the Presidium of the People's Assembly, which is not a true court; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

      National holiday: Liberation Day, 29 November (1944)

      Executive branch: president of the Presidium of the People's Assembly, three vice presidents, Presidium of the People's Assembly; chairman of the Council of Ministers, three deputy chairmen, Council of Ministers

      Legislative branch: unicameral People's Assembly (Kuvendi Popullor)

      Judicial branch: Supreme Court

      Leaders:

       Chief of State—President of the Presidium of the People's Assembly Ramiz

       ALIA (since 22 November 1982);

      Head of Government—Chairman of the Council of Ministers Adil CARCANI (since 14 January 1982)

      Political parties and leaders: only party—Albanian Workers Party,

       Ramiz Alia, first secretary

      Suffrage: universal and compulsory at age 18

      Elections:

       President—last held 19 February 1987 (next to be held

       February 1991);

       results—President Ramiz Alia was reelected without opposition;

      People's Assembly—last held 1 February 1987 (next to be held February 1991); results—Albanian Workers Party is the only party; seats—(250 total) Albanian Workers Party 250

      Communists: 147,000 party members (November 1986)

      Member of: CCC, CEMA (has not participated since rift with USSR in 1961), FAO, IAEA, IPU, ITU, UN, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WMO

      Diplomatic representation: none—the US does not recognize the Albanian Government and has no diplomatic or consular relations with Albania; there is no third-power representation of Albanian interests in the US or of US interests in Albania

      Flag: red with a black two-headed eagle in the center below a red five-pointed star outlined in yellow

      - Economy Overview: As the poorest country in Europe, Albania's development lags behind even the least favored areas of the Yugoslav economy. The Stalinist-type economy operates on the principles of central planning and state ownership of the means of production. In recent years Albania has implemented limited economic reforms to stimulate its lagging economy, although they do not go nearly so far as current reforms in the USSR and Eastern Europe. Attempts at self-reliance and a policy of not borrowing from international lenders—sometimes overlooked in recent years—have greatly hindered the development of a broad economic infrastructure. Albania, however, possesses considerable mineral resources and is largely self-sufficient in food. Numerical estimates of Albanian economic activity are subject to an especially wide margin of error because the government is isolated and closemouthed.

      GNP: $3.8 billion, per capita $1,200; real growth rate NA% (1989 est.)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%

      Unemployment rate: NA%

      Budget: revenues $2.3 billion; expenditures $2.3 billion, including capital expenditures of NA (1989)

      Exports: $378 million (f.o.b., 1987 est.); commodities—asphalt, bitumen, petroleum products, metals and metallic ores, electricity, oil, vegetables, fruits, tobacco; partners—Italy, Yugoslavia, FRG, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary

      Imports: $255 million (f.o.b., 1987 est.); commodities—machinery, machine tools, iron and steel products, textiles, chemicals, pharmaceuticals; partners—Italy, Yugoslavia, FRG, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, GDR

      External debt: $NA

      Industrial production: growth rate NA

      Electricity: 1,630,000 kW capacity; 4,725 million kWh produced, 1,440 kWh per capita (1989)

      Industries: food processing, textiles and clothing, lumber, oil, cement, chemicals, basic metals, hydropower

      Agriculture: arable land per capita among lowest in Europe; one-half of work force engaged in farming; produces wide range of temperate-zone crops and livestock; claims self-sufficiency in grain output

      Aid: none

      Currency: lek (plural—leke); 1 lek (L) = 100 qintars

      Exchange rates: leke (L) per US$1—8.00 (noncommercial fixed rate since 1986), 4.14 (commercial fixed rate since 1987)

      Fiscal year: calendar year

      - Communications Railroads: 543 km total; 509 1.435-meter standard gauge, single track and 34 km narrow gauge, single track (1988); line connecting Titograd (Yugoslavia) and Shkoder (Albania) completed August 1986

      Highways: 16,700 km total; 6,700 km highway and roads, 10,000 km forest and agricultural

      Inland waterways: 43 km plus Albanian sections of Lake Scutari, Lake

       Ohrid, and Lake Prespa

      Pipelines: crude oil, 145 km; refined products, 55 km; natural gas, 64 km (1988)

      Ports: Durres, Sarande, Vlore

      Merchant marine: 11 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 52,886 GRT/75,993

       DWT; includes 11 cargo

      Airports: 12 total, 10 usable; more than 5 with permanent-surface runways; more than 5 with runways 2,440–3,659 m; 5 with runways 1,220–2,439 m

      Telecommunications: stations—17 AM, 5 FM, 9 TV; 52,000 TV sets; 210,000 radios

      - Defense Forces

       Branches: Albanian People's Army, Frontier Troops, Interior СКАЧАТЬ