Profile: South Africa
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Month
August
Year
1986
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PROFILE: SOUTH AFRICA
Population: 28,821,000
Area: 472,359 square miles (larger than California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada combined)
% of budget allocated for defense: 20%
Prison population: 440 per 100,000 (highest in the world)
GNP: $70.35 billion in 1982 (larger than the combined GNP of eastern, central and southern Africa)
Steel Production: 6 times more than all the rest of Africa combined
Mineral Reserves (as % of world's total reserves): Gold--60%; Chromium--66%; Manganese--37%; Platinum group metals--73%; Vanadium--50% (needed to make jet engines) *strategic metals-highly valued in the West for their military and industrial uses.