The 2008 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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СКАЧАТЬ million f.o.b. (2007 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

      foodstuffs, manufactures, fuel, machinery and transport equipment

      Imports - partners:

      China 23.7%, Senegal 11.5%, Cote d'Ivoire 8.3%, Brazil 8%,

       Netherlands 5.2% (2007)

      Economic aid - recipient:

      $58.15 million (2005)

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

      $142.8 million (31 December 2007 est.)

      Debt - external:

      $628.8 million (2003 est.)

      Market value of publicly traded shares:

      $NA

      Currency (code):

      dalasi (GMD)

      Currency code:

      GMD

      Exchange rates:

      dalasis (GMD) per US dollar - 27.79 (2007), 28.066 (2006), 28.575 (2005), 30.03 (2004), 27.306 (2003)

      Communications

       Gambia, The

      Telephones - main lines in use:

      76,400 (2007)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

      795,900 (2007)

      Telephone system:

      general assessment: adequate; a packet switched data network is available; two mobile-cellular service providers domestic: adequate network of microwave radio relay and open-wire; combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity reached 50 telephones per 100 persons in 2007 international: country code - 220; microwave radio relay links to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2007)

      Radio broadcast stations:

      AM 3, FM 2, shortwave 0 (2001)

      Radios:

      196,000 (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

      1 (government-owned) (1997)

      Televisions:

      5,000 (2000)

      Internet country code:

      .gm

      Internet hosts:

      320 (2008)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

      2 (2001)

      Internet users:

      100,200 (2007)

      Transportation

       Gambia, The

      Airports:

      1 (2007)

      Airports - with paved runways:

      total: 1 over 3,047 m: 1 (2007)

      Roadways:

      total: 3,742 km paved: 723 km unpaved: 3,019 km (2004)

      Waterways:

      390 km (on River Gambia; small ocean-going vessels can reach 190 km) (2006)

      Merchant marine:

      total: 5 by type: passenger/cargo 4, petroleum tanker 1 (2008)

      Ports and terminals:

      Banjul

      Military

       Gambia, The

      Military branches:

      Office of the Chief of Defense: Gambian National Army (National

       Guard, GNA), Gambian Navy (GN) (2008)

      Military service age and obligation:

      18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2008)

      Manpower available for military service:

      males age 16–49: 379,668 females age 16–49: 384,438 (2008 est.)

      Manpower fit for military service:

      males age 16–49: 230,202 females age 16–49: 244,480 (2008 est.)

      Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

      male: 19,650 female: 19,582 (2008 est.)

      Military expenditures:

      0.5% of GDP (2006)

      Transnational Issues

       Gambia, The

      Disputes - international:

      attempts to stem refugees, cross-border raids, arms smuggling, and other illegal activities by separatists from southern Senegal's Casamance region, as well as from conflicts in other west African states

      Refugees and internally displaced persons:

      refugees (country of origin): 5,955 (Sierra Leone) (2007)

      Trafficking in persons:

      current situation: The Gambia is a source, transit, and destination country for children and women trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation; women and girls, and to a lesser extent boys, are trafficked for sexual exploitation - in particular to meet the demand for European sex tourism - and for domestic servitude; boys are trafficked within the country for forced begging and street vending; Gambian women and children may be trafficked to Europe through trafficking schemes disguised as migrant smuggling tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - for a second consecutive year, The Gambia is on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to eliminate trafficking; The Gambia failed to report any trafficking arrests, prosecutions, or convictions in 2007, and the government demonstrated weak victim protection efforts during the reporting period (2008)

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