text: Guinea-Bissau 1 !ISO 3 600 0.34 0.62 lvory coast 41 000 ~e 000 0.52 1.23 Kenya ro 200 1 !.'e 3oo 0.46 1.14 Lesotho 2 !170 e 100 0.22 0.63 Liberia 7 CiOO l3 700 0.40 n.n Libyan Arab Ja~:~ahiriya 1 sa ooo 200 000 6.37 6.40 Madagaacar 1!1 34S 37 000 0.22 0.41 l'.a1awi 11 521 30 383 0.18 0.48 Mali 3 600 6 100 0.05 0.09 tlauritania 3 161 6 000 0.19 0.36 110 Mauritiua 2e u5 44 236 2.75 5.32 }loroct:o 166 256 261 000 0.72 1.13· Mozalllbique 31 700 53 000 0.30 o.so Niger 6 360 1 517 0.12 0.17 Ni<Jeria 114 473 187 220 0.14 0.24 Rwanda 4 000 4 200 o.oe o.o8 110 Sao Tame and Principe 700 !100 0.79 1.01 Senegal 19 800 50 000 0.34 0.86 Seychelles 3 e34 7 711 5.40 10.87 Sierra Leone 12 600 14 000 0.35 0.39 Somalia e 2oo 18 600 0.17 0.40 Sudan 47 000 76 500 0.25 0.41 107 Swaziland 5 334 12 238 0.110 2.02 United Republic of <:aJDeroon 18 ~10 37 440 0.22 0.43 United Republic o! Tan:r.anh 40 704 % 521 0.22 0.52 Togo 7 300 s 600 0.26 0.35 Tunisia 107 000 186 000 1.61 2.80 U<Janc!a 21 4H 43 424 0.16 0.32 Upper Volta 6 000 12 000 o.os 0.17 Zaire 27 000 35 000 0.09 0.12 178 Zlll!tlia 31 402 62 418 0.54 1.07 73 Zilltlabwe s-e 430 225 000 1.24 2.83 'l'otal 2 134 260 3 422 012 0.47 0.76 ------------------------------------------------------~--------------------------------------·--------------------Sources: Demogralhic nandbook for ~frica 1980 (Hddis Aha~ ~CA, 1980); Yearbook of Common carrier Telec~ation Stot. sties and RadiocnmmunieatlOii Statistics, Year 1977 (Ge;;;;va:-Iro. 1 !'78): Tbe lfortd •a Tel!'holltS as of January ~a (fled•unste, N.~.~ J\T&T-i.ong Lines, 1 s·7s): coneultanta • reports. 89 E/ECA /CM. 9/5 
analysis: The text appears to be a compilation of statistics about African countries, including population, land area, and telephone lines. The data seems to be related to the development of communication infrastructure in these countries, which suggests a focus on economic development and social indicators.