total: 138 usable: 130 with permanent-surface runways: 8 with permanent-surface

2 with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 24 Telecommunications: adequate, automatic domestic telephone network; 127,000 telephones; broadcast stations - 2 AM, 2 FM, 50 TV; 19 submarine coaxial cables; 2 INTELSAT earth stations operating in major cities Literacy: age 15 and over having ever attended school (1980) total population: 69% male: 67% female: 40% Labor force: 2.8 million by occupation: services 50.1%, manufacturing and construction assuming increasing importance. Agriculture accounts for 19% of GDP (1989) *Bassas da India, Europa Island, French Guiana,

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