Algeria 
Facts
Population: 33,333,216 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 27.2% (male 4,627,479/female 4,447,468)
15-64 years: 67.9% (male 11,413,121/female 11,235,096)
65 years and over: 4.8% (male 752,058/female 857,994) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 1.216% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 17.11 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 4.62 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -0.33 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.016 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.877 male(s)/female
total population: 1.015 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 28.78 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 32.45 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 24.93 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 73.52 years
male: 71.91 years
female: 75.21 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.86 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.1%; note - no country specific models provided (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 9,100 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 500 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Algerian(s)
adjective: Algerian.
Ethnic groups: Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1%
note: almost all Algerians are Berber in origin, not Arab; the minority who identify themselves as Berber live mostly in the mountainous region of Kabylie east of Algiers; the Berbers are also Muslim but identify with their Berber rather than Arab cultural heritage; Berbers have long agitated, sometimes violently, for autonomy; the government is unlikely to grant autonomy but has offered to begin sponsoring teaching Berber language in schools.
Religions: Sunni Muslim (state religion) 99%, Christian and Jewish 1%.
Languages: Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 69.9%
male: 79.6%
female: 60.1% (2002 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $250 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 3% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $7,600 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 9.4%
industry: 58.1%
services: 32.5% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 9.31 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 14%, industry 13.4%, construction and public works 10%, trade 14.6%, government 32%, other 16% (2003 est.).
Population below poverty line: 25% (2005 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.8%
highest 10%: 26.8% (1995).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 15.7% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $59.26 billion
expenditures: $49.14 billion; including capital expenditures of $5.8 billion (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: wheat, barley, oats, grapes, olives, citrus, fruits; sheep, cattle.
Industries: petroleum, natural gas, light industries, mining, electrical, petrochemical, food processing.
Industrial production growth rate: 10% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 29.39 billion kWh (2004 est.).
Electricity - consumption: 27.4 billion kWh (2004 est.).
Electricity - exports: 230 million kWh (2004 est.).
Electricity - imports: 300 million kWh (2004 est.).
Exports: $55.6 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: petroleum, natural gas, and petroleum products 97%.
Exports - partners: US 22.6%, Italy 15.9%, Spain 10.5%, France 10%, Canada 7.9%, Brazil 6.5%, Belgium 4.3%, Germany 4.2% (2005).
Imports: $27.6 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: capital goods, foodstuffs, consumer goods.
Imports - partners: France 28%, Italy 7.8%, Spain 7.2%, China 6.6%, Germany 6.3%, US 5.4% (2005).
Debt - external: $5 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $313 million (2004 est.).
Currency (code): Algerian dinar (DZD).
Exchange rates: Algerian dinars per US dollar - 72.647 (2006), 73.276 (2005), 72.061 (2004), 77.395 (2003), 79.682 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
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Algiers
http://www.aai-online.com/site/
Algiers
http://www.al-fadjr.com
Algérie Actualité
(French-language weekly), Algiers
(News agency), Algiers
http://www.aps.dz
Al-Jazair al-Youm
Algiers
Al-Joumhouriya
Oran
Algiers
http://www.ech-chaab.com
Algeria in the News
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World Press Review - Regional Reports - L'Affaire Aussaresses - France's national guilt over war crimes in Algeria.
Distinguished by a life of military valor and decades of writing that marked the courage of his convictions, Algerian-born writer Jules Roy died in June at 92. Roy was one of France’s most productive writers, and one of the sharpest critics of its war against Algerian independence.
The recent visit by a group of Algerian journalists and academics to Israel triggered controversy in the Algerian press and brought accusations of treason from President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Evidence that Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) leader Abdel Kader Hachani had complained to Algerian authorities about harassment and surveillance by security agents in the weeks leading up to his assassination has heightened suspicion that shadowy military and security factions were behind his murder, reports the Saudi-owned Al-Hayat of London (Nov. 24).
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