Libya 
Facts
Population: 6,036,914
note: includes 166,510 non-nationals (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 33.4% (male 1,029,096/female 985,606)
15-64 years: 62.4% (male 1,940,287/female 1,827,429)
65 years and over: 4.2% (male 124,892/female 129,604) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 2.262% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 26.09 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 3.47 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.044 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.062 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.964 male(s)/female
total population: 1.052 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 22.82 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 25.07 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 20.47 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 76.88 years
male: 74.64 years
female: 79.23 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 3.21 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.3% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 10,000 (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: NA.
Nationality: noun: Libyan(s)
adjective: Libyan.
Ethnic groups: Berber and Arab 97%, other 3% (includes Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians, and Tunisians).
Religions: Sunni Muslim 97%, other 3%.
Languages: Arabic, Italian, English, all are widely understood in the major cities.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 82.6%
male: 92.4%
female: 72% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $72.68 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 6.1% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $12,300 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 7.3%
industry: 51.3%
services: 41.4% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 1.787 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 17%
industry: 23%
services: 59% (2004 est.).
Population below poverty line: 7.4% (2005 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%.
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.1% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 30% (2004 est.).
Budget: revenues: $33.34 billion
expenditures: $19.3 billion; including capital expenditures of $5.6 billion (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: wheat, barley, olives, dates, citrus, vegetables, peanuts, soybeans; cattle.
Industries: petroleum, iron and steel, food processing, textiles, handicrafts, cement.
Industrial production growth rate: NA%.
Electricity - production: 19.44 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 18.08 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).
Exports: $37.02 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: crude oil, refined petroleum products, natural gas, chemicals.
Exports - partners: Italy 38%, Germany 15.1%, Spain 9.3%, Turkey 6.2%, France 6.2%, US 5.2% (2005).
Imports: $14.47 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: machinery, semi-finished goods, food, transport equipment, consumer products.
Imports - partners: Italy 21.2%, Germany 10.2%, Tunisia 5.9%, Turkey 4.8%, UK 4.8%, France 4.7%, South Korea 4.6%, China 4.5% (2005).
Debt - external: $4.492 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: ODA, $18 million (2004 est.).
Currency (code): Libyan dinar (LYD).
Exchange rates: Libyan dinars per US dollar - 1.3108 (2006), 1.3084 (2005), 1.305 (2004), 1.2929 (2003), 1.2707 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
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Al-Balagh
(Pro-government), Tripoli
(Pro-government), Tripoli
http://www.alfajraljadeed.com/
(Government-owned weekly), Tripoli
http://www.aljamahiria.com/
Al-Jihad
(Pro-government), Tripoli
Al-Ra'I
(Pro-government), Tripoli
Al-Shura
(Pro-government), Benghazi
(pro-government), Tripoli
http://www.azzahfalakhder.com/
Libya in the News
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Charles Lambroschini, a journalist with the conservative Parisian daily Le Figaro, interviews Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi about the Iraq crisis and its possible aftermath.
Peter Valenti reviews Arab press coverage of Libya's withdrawal from the Arab League.
Libyan Leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi once identified Sierra Leone’s President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah as a pliable fellow Muslim who would be able to achieve his goals, one of which is to erase British influence in Sierra Leone.
The outbreak of violence was described as a reaction by Libyan youths to the surge of more than a million legal and illegal immigrants from Nigeria, Sudan, Ghana, Chad, Niger, Guinea, and Came-roon who have been drawn to oil-rich Libya for work.
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