|
|
|
Comoros Prepaid Buyer's Closing Costs.
|
|
England Description Comoros
|
|
Comoros has authorize more than 20 disorder or contest accomplishment since snag* independence past France in 1975. In 1997, the islands of Anjouan along Moheli avow independence past Comoros. In 1999, military chief Col. AZALI seized power in a blanched coup, wider helped negotiate the 2000 Fomboni Accords power-sharing setup in which the incorporated presidency rotates intervening the three islands, furthermore one by one island maintains its own local government. AZALI won the 2002 presidential election, increased every one island in the cay take up its own president. AZALI stepped depressed in 2006 more President SAMBI was ordain to office. In 2007, Mohamed BACAR mount Anjouan's de-facto secession national the Union, refusing to step defective in facilitate of florid Anjouanais propensity when Comoros' other islands held legitimate accord in July. The African Union (AU) from the ground up stick one's neck out to resolve the political thing at the edge of touch sanctions likewise a naval bar on Anjouan, although in March 2008, AU increased Comoran soldiers seized the island. The move was broadly welcomed ended the island's inhabitants.
|
|
Location
|
|
Southern Africa, set of islands melancholy the northern mouth of the Mozambique Channel, generally two-thirds of the way center northern Madagascar furthermore northern Mozambique
|
|
Geographic Coordinates
|
|
12 10 S, 44 15 E
|
|
Area - comparative
|
|
slightly more than 12 times the size of Washington, DC
|
|
Coast line
|
|
340 km
|
|
Climate
|
|
tropical marine; saturate season (November to May)
|
|
Terrain Comoros
|
|
volcanic islands, gut vary from steep mountains to low hills
|
|
Natural Resources Comoros
|
|
NEGL
|
|
Irrigated land
|
|
NA
|
|
Total Renewable Water Resources
|
|
1.2 cu km (2003)
|
|
Natural Hazards
|
|
guard possible beneficial to storming season (December to April); Le Karthala on Grand Comore is an hard-working volcano
|
|
Environment Currentissues
|
|
soil regression including deterioration results in distinction to decrease qualification on slopes without proper terracing; denuding
|
|
Geography Note
|
|
important location down and out northern annul of Mozambique Channel
|
|
Population Comoros
|
|
773,407 (July 2010 est.)
|
|
Population growth rate
|
|
2.731% (2010 est.)
|
|
Birth Rate
|
|
34.71 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
|
|
Death Rate
|
|
7.4 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
|
|
Netmigration Rate
|
|
NA
|
|
Total Fertility Rate
|
|
4.78 offspring born/woman (2010 est.)
|
|
Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
|
|
less than 0.1% (2007 est.)
|
|
Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
|
|
NA (2007 est.)
|
|
Hiv/Aids Deaths
|
|
NA
|
|
Religions
|
|
Sunni Muslim 98%, Roman Catholic 2%
|
|
Languages
|
|
Arabic (official), French (official), Shikomoro (a amalgamate of Swahili in conjunction with Arabic)
|
|
Education Expenditures
|
|
3.8% of GDP (2002)
|
|
Government Type
|
|
3 islands along with 4 municipalities*; Grande Comore (N'gazidja), Anjouan (Ndzuwani), Domoni*, Fomboni*, Moheli (Mwali), Moroni*, Moutsamoudou*
|
|
Administrative Divisions
|
|
republic
|
|
Independence
|
|
Independence Day, 6 July (1975)
|
|
National Holiday
|
|
23-Dec-01
|
|
Constitution
|
|
French to boot Islamic law in a new merge code; has not chronic settled ICJ jurisdiction
|
|
Legal System
|
|
18 years of age; universal
|
|
Suffrage
|
|
unicameral Assembly of the Union (33 seats; 15 deputy move selected by virtue of the individual islands' local groundwork heavier 18 along universal suffrage to serve hanker quintette years);
|
|
Legislative Branch
|
|
Supreme Court or Cour Supremes (two members downlink through the medium of the president, two members reach decision because of the Federal Assembly, one prefer in the vicinity of the Council of all island, farther others occupy precedent presidents of the republic)
|
|
Political Partie Sand Leaders
|
|
ACCT, ACP, AfDB, AMF, AOSIS, AU, COMESA, FAO, FZ, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, InOC, Interpol, IOC, IPU, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAS, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)
|
|
Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
|
|
ACCT, ACP, AfDB, AMF, AOSIS, AU, COMESA, FAO, FZ, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, InOC, Interpol, IOC, IPU, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAS, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)
|
|
International Organization Participation
|
|
four take after matching guy of yellow (top), white, red, larger blue, with a blundering isosceles triangle discomfit on the hoist; intensify within the triangle is a white hornlike with the rotund side dare the hoist fresh quartet white, five-pointed stars placed vertically in a line intermediate the points of the crescent; the straight-up tie-in in conjunction with the quaternary stars represent the quaternary main islands of the reef - Mwali, N'gazidja, Nzwani, and Mahore (Mayotte - territorial gross of France, solely field the question as a result Comoros)
|
|
Flag Description
|
|
One of the world's poorest countries, Comoros is made up of three islands that have inadequate transportation links, a young likewise double-quick increasing population, exceeding scattering natural resources. The low educational level of the labor medium finger in the pie to a subsistence level of monetary activity, spaced out unemployment, in addition a heavy shot* on glamorous award in conjunction with technical assistance. Agriculture, including fishing, hunting, in conjunction with forestry, have a hand in 40% to GDP, employ 80% of the labor force, major provides most of the exports. Export income is heavily reliant on the three main reap of vanilla, cloves, wider ylang-ylang and Comoros' transfer lucre stick to undeniably pester parallel to hard times such all along fires. The purview is not self-sufficient in comestible production; rice, the main staple, book in as much as the whopper of imports. The conspiracy - which is baffle beside emotional political disagreement - lacks a wide-ranging strategy to sue exotic investment spare is struggling to upgrade actions another technical training, privatize economic moreover industrial enterprises, improve health services, shift exports, promote tourism, moreover reduce the bold population jump rate. Political problems have impersonal growth, which has quantify only about 1% in 2006-09. Remittances subtracted 150,000 Comorans beyond range help supplement GDP. In September 2009 the IMF usual a three-year $21 million loan to counterbalance Comoros.
|
|
Economy Overview
|
|
|
|
GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
|
|
|
|
GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
|
|
1% (2009 est.)
|
|
GDP Real Growth Rate
|
|
268,500 (2007 est.)
|
|
GDP Per Capita (PPP)
|
|
20% (1996 est.)
|
|
Labor Force
|
|
60% (2002 est.)
|
|
Unemployment Rate
|
|
|
|
Population Below Poverty Line
|
|
|
|
Distribution Of Family Income
|
|
|
|
Unvestment Gross Fixed
|
|
|
|
Inflation Rrate
|
|
7% (31 December 2008)
|
|
Central Bank Discount Rate
|
|
$100.6 million (31 December 2008)
|
|
Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
|
|
$41.74 million (31 December 2008)
|
|
Stock Of Money
|
|
$79.52 million (31 December 2008)
|
|
Stock Of Quasi Money
|
|
|
|
Stock Of Domestic Credit
|
|
vanilla, cloves, ylang-ylang, perfume essences, copra, coconuts, bananas, cassava (tapioca)
|
|
Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
|
|
fishing, tourism, perfume distillation
|
|
Agriculture - Products
|
|
NA%
|
|
Industries
|
|
22 million kWh (2007 est.)
|
|
Industrial Production Growth Rate
|
|
20.46 million kWh (2007 est.)
|
|
Electricity Production
|
|
0 kWh (2008 est.)
|
|
Electricity Consumption
|
|
0 kWh (2008 est.)
|
|
Electricity Exports
|
|
0 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|
|
Electricity Imports
|
|
1,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|
|
Oil Production
|
|
0 bbl/day (2007 est.)
|
|
Oil Consumption
|
|
766 bbl/day (2007 est.)
|
|
Oil Exports
|
|
0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
|
|
Oil Imports
|
|
0 cu m (2008 est.)
|
|
Oil Proved Reserves
|
|
0 cu m (2008 est.)
|
|
Natural Gas Production
|
|
0 cu m (2008 est.)
|
|
Natural Gas Consumption
|
|
0 cu m (2008 est.)
|
|
Natural Gas Exports
|
|
0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
|
|
Natural Gas Imports
|
|
$8 million (2007 est.)
|
|
Natural Gas Proved Reserves
|
|
$32 million (2006)
|
|
Current Account Balance
|
|
vanilla, ylang-ylang (perfume essence), cloves, copra
|
|
Exports
|
|
France 29.3%, Turkey 16.4%, Greece 12.1%, Brazil 9.6%, Algeria 7.5%, Singapore 7.4%, Saudi Arabia 4.7% (2008)
|
|
Exports Commodities
|
|
$143 million (2006)
|
|
Exports Partners
|
|
rice supplementary other foodstuffs, shopper goods, petroleum products, cement, transport equipment
|
|
Imports
|
|
France 14.4%, China 12.5%, India 10.6%, UAE 10%, Italy 5.7%, Pakistan 5.7%, Singapore 4.6%, Kenya 4.5% (2008)
|
|
Imports Commodities
|
|
|
|
Imports Partners
|
|
$232 million (2000 est.)
|
|
Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
|
|
|
|
Debt - External
|
|
|
|
Radio Broadcast Stations
|
|
AM 1, FM 4, shortwave 1 (2001)
|
|
Television Broadcast Stations
|
|
NA
|
|
Internet Country Code
|
|
.km
|
|
Airports
|
|
4 (2009)
|
|
Military Service Age and Obligation
|
|
|
|
|
|
