APPENDICES
APPENDIX 42
(Chapter 16: Public Order)
Correctional Services
Population of
Prisons
Training centres
1988
7 793
As at end of year
1989
1990
8 453
10 027
682
707
806
Detention centres
312
363
318
Treatment centres
1 250
1 094
944
Vietnamese refugees/Vietnamese boat people/
Illegal immigrants
18 880
Number Discharged under aftercare
3 461
34 748 3 743
28 386
3 326
APPENDIX 43
(Chapter 19: Communications and The Media)
Communications
Postal traffic:
1988
1989
1990 Estimate
Letter mails (million articles)
posted to destinations abroad
posted for local delivery
received from abroad for local delivery
in transit
Parcels (thousands)
126.6
134.0
136.2
532.7
595.3
639.6
86.6
90.5
88.1
3.8
4.0
4.0
posted to destinations abroad
1 352
1 287
1 232
posted for local delivery
149
108
77
received from abroad for local delivery
540
498
553
in transit
40
45
38
Telecommunications traffic:
Telegrams (thousand messages)
accepted for transmission
799
634
452
received
923
725
546
in transit
221
177
140
Telex calls (thousand minutes)
outward
38 429
31 210
26 668
inward
44 346
36 472
31 323
International telephone calls (thousand minutes)
outward (voice)
350 782
458 407
582 000
outward (fax and data)
60 672
inward (voice, fax and data)
397 959*
88 578 510 398*
112 500
617 800
Radio pictures
transmitted
10 028+
5+
8
received
733
368
252
Broadcast and reception services (thousand hours)
press
9.0
11.6°
10.8
meteorological
113.7
108.5
109.1
International telephone circuits
8 058
10 329
12 406
International telegraph circuits
3 536
3.399
3 056
Telex trunks
2 459
2 425
2 200
International leased circuits
1907
1 908
1813
Telephone exchanges
Exchange capacity (thousand lines)
Keylines and PABX lines (thousands)
Fax lines (thousands)
Telephone subscribers (thousands)
Telephones (thousands)
70
70
72
2 577
2 691
2 762
274
312
340
60
83
107
2154
2 305
2 447
2 892*
3 105*
3 279
Telephones per 100 population
Outgoing internationl calls (million)
Telecommunications licences (all types)
Note:
* Estimate.
50.41*
53.41*
-56.53
112.69
156.38
202.6
66 480
71 956
77 011
† A major customer withdrew its subscription to the service from July 1988.
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