Algeria


Capital: -
Type of Government: republic-
Administrative Divisions: 48 provinces (wilayas, singular - wilaya); Adrar, Ain Defla, Ain Temouchent, Alger, Annaba, Batna, Bechar, Bejaia, Biskra, Blida, Bordj Bou Arreridj, Bouira, Boumerdes, Chlef, Constantine, Djelfa, El Bayadh, El Oued, El Tarf, Ghardaia, Guelma, Illizi, Jijel, Khenchela, Laghouat, Mascara, Medea, Mila, Mostaganem, M'Sila, Naama, Oran, Ouargla, Oum el Bouaghi, Relizane, Saida, Setif, Sidi Bel Abbes, Skikda, Souk Ahras, Tamanghasset, Tebessa, Tiaret, Tindouf, Tipaza, Tissemsilt, Tizi Ouzou, Tlemcen
Age Structure: 0-14 years: 29% (male 4,811,086/female 4,626,271)
Agriculture: wheat, barley, oats, grapes, olives, citrus, fruits; sheep, cattle
Airports: 137 (2004 est.)
With Paved Runways: total: 52
With Unpaved Runways:
Area: -. -
Background:
Birth rate: 17.13 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Budget: revenues: $42.05 billion-
Coastline: -
Climate: -
Communications:
Constitution: 19 November 1976, effective 22 November 1976; revised 3 November 1988, 23 February 1989, and 28 November 1996-
Currency: Algerian dinar (DZD)-
Current account balance:
Death rate: 4.6 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Debt - external: $21.54 billion (2005 est.)-
Dependency status: -
Dependent areas: -
Diplomatic representation from the US: -
Diplomatic representation in the US:
Disputes - international: Algeria supports the exiled Sahrawi Polisario Front and rejects Moroccan administration of Western Sahara; Algeria's border with Morocco remains an irritant to bilateral relations, each nation has accused the other of harboring militants and arms smuggling; in an attempt to improve relations after unilaterally imposing a visa requirement on Algerians in the early 1990s, Morocco lifted the requirement in mid-2004 - a gesture not reciprocated by Algeria; Algeria remains concerned about armed bandits operating throughout the Sahel who sometimes destabilize southern Algerian towns; dormant disputes include Libyan claims of about 32,000 sq km still reflected on its maps of southeastern Algeria and the FLN's assertions of a claim to Chirac Pastures in southeastern Morocco
Distribution of family income: 35.3 (1995)-
Economic aid - donor:
Economic aid - recipient: $122.8 million (2002 est.)-
Economy - overview:
Electricity - consumption:
Electricity - exports:
Electricity - imports:
Electricity - production:
Elevation extremes: lowest point: Chott Melrhir -40 m-
Environment - current issues:
Environment - International Agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
Ethnic groups: Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1%
Exchange rates: Algerian dinars per US dollar - 71.67 (2005), 72.061 (2004), 77.395 (2003), 79.682 (2002), 77.215 (2001)-
Executive branch:
Exports: $49.59 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)
Exports - partners: US 22.6%, Italy 17.2%, France 11.4%, Spain 10.1%, Canada 7.5%, Brazil 6.1%, Belgium 4.6% (2004)
Fiscal year: calendar year-
Flag description:
GDP (official exchange rate): $88.86 billion (2005 est.)
GDP (purchasing power parity): $237 billion (2005 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 10%
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $7,300 (2005 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 7.1% (2005 est.)-
Geographic coordinates: -
Geography - note: -
Government - note:
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.1% ; note - no country specific models provided (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 500 (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 9,100 (2003 est.)
Heliports: 1 (2005 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.8%-
Illicit drugs:
Imports: $22.53 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)
Imports - partners: France 30.3%, Italy 8.2%, Germany 6.5%, Spain 5.5%, US 5.2%, China 5.1%, Turkey 4.3% (2004)
Independence: 5 July 1962 (from France)
Industrial production growth rate: 25.5% (2005 est.)
Industries: petroleum, natural gas, light industries, mining, electrical, petrochemical, food processing
Infant mortality rate: total: 31 deaths/1,000 live births
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.7% (2005 est.)
International organization participation: ABEDA, AfDB, AFESD, AMF, AMU, AU, BIS, FAO, G-15, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, LAS, MIGA, MONUC, NAM, OAPEC, OAS (observer), OIC, ONUB, OPCW, OPEC, OSCE (partner), UN, UN Security Council (temporary), UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMEE, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTO (observer)
Internet country code: .dz-
Internet hosts:
Internet users: 500,000 (2002)-
Investment (gross fixed):
Irrigated land: 5,600 sq km (1998 est.)
Judicial branch: Supreme Court or Court Supreme
Labor force: 10.15 million (2005 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
Land boundaries:
Land use: arable land: 3.22%-
Languages: -
Legal system:
Legislative branch:
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 73 years
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write-
Location: -
Major infectious diseases:
Manpower available for military service: males age 19-49: 8,033,049 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service: males age 19-49: 6,590,079 (2005 est.)
Manpower reaching military service age annually: males: 374,639 (2005 est.)-
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Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm
Median age: total: 24.36 years-
Merchant marine: -
Military - note:
Military branches: People's National Army (ANP; includes Land Forces), Algerian National Navy (MRA), Air Force (QJJ), Territorial Air Defense Force (2005)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $2.48 billion (2004)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 3.2% (2004)
Military service age and obligation: 19-30 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation - 18 months (October 2003)
National holiday: Revolution Day, 1 November (1954)
Nationality: noun: Algerian(s)
Natural gas - consumption: 22.32 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - exports: 57.98 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
Natural gas - production: 80.3 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves: 4.739 trillion cu m (2005)
Natural hazards: mountainous areas subject to severe earthquakes; mudslides and floods in rainy season
Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, phosphates, uranium, lead, zinc
Net migration rate: -0.37 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Oil - consumption: 232,000 bbl/day (2003 est.)
Oil - exports: NA (2001)
Oil - imports: NA (2001)
Oil - production: 1.373 million bbl/day (2005 est.)
Oil - proved reserves: 12.46 billion bbl (2005 est.)-
People - note:
Political parties and leaders: Algerian National Front or FNA [Moussa TOUATI]; Democratic National Rally or RND [Ahmed OUYAHIA, chairman]; Islamic Salvation Front or FIS (outlawed April 1992) [Ali BELHADJ and Dr. Abassi MADANI, Rabeh KEBIR (self-exiled in Germany)]; National Entente Movement or MEN [Ali BOUKHAZNA]; National Liberation Front or FLN [Abdelaziz BELKHADEM, secretary general (also serves as Minister of State and Special Representative of the Head of State)]; National Reform Movement or Islah (formerly MRN) [Abdellah DJABALLAH]; National Renewal Party or PRA [Yacine TERKMANE]; Progressive Republican Party [Khadir DRISS]; Rally for Culture and Democracy or RCD [Said SAADI, secretary general]; Renaissance Movement or EnNahda Movement [Fatah RABEI]; Socialist Forces Front or FFS [Hocine Ait AHMED, secretary general (self-exiled in Switzerland)]; Social Liberal Party or PSL [Ahmed KHELIL]; Society of Peace Movement or MSP [Boujerra SOLTANI]; Workers Party or PT [Louisa HANOUN]
Political pressure groups and leaders: The Algerian Human Rights League or LADH or LADDH [Yahia Ali ABDENOUR]; SOS Disparus [Nacera DUTOUR]; Somoud [Ali MERABET]-
Population:
Population below poverty line: 23% (1999 est.)
Population growth rate: 1.22% (2005 est.)
Ports and terminals: Algiers, Annaba, Arzew, Bejaia, Djendjene, Jijel, Mostaganem, Oran, Skikda
Public debt: 14.8% of GDP (2005 est.)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 25, FM 1, shortwave 8 (1999)-
Railways: -
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
Religions: Sunni Muslim (state religion) 99%, Christian and Jewish 1%-
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
Roadways: total: 104,000 km
Sex ratio:
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal
Telephone system: general assessment: telephone density in Algeria is very low, not exceeding five telephones per 100 persons; the number of fixed main lines increased in the last few years to a little more than 2,000,000, but only about two-thirds of these have subscribers; much of the infrastructure is outdated and inefficient
Telephones - main lines in use: 2,199,600 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 1,447,310 (2003)
Television broadcast stations: 46 (plus 216 repeaters) (1995)
Terrain: mostly high plateau and desert; some mountains; narrow, discontinuous coastal plain
Total fertility rate: 1.92 children born/woman (2005 est.)-
Transportation - note:
Unemployment rate: 22.5% (2005 est.)-
Waterways: