ACOG - Algeria  - IBM

Geography

Location: Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Morocco and Tunisia

Area:
total area: 2,381,740 sq km
land area: 2,381,740 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than 3.5 times the size of Texas

Land boundaries: total 6,343 km, Libya 982 km, Mali 1,376 km, Mauritania 463 km, Morocco 1,559 km, Niger 956 km, Tunisia 965 km, Western Sahara 42 km

Coastline: 998 km


People

Population: 28,539,321 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 41% (female 5,678,879; male 5,885,246)
15-64 years: 56% (female 7,887,885; male 8,033,508)
65 years and over: 3% (female 557,636; male 496,167)

Population growth rate: 2.25% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 29.02 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 6.05 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -0.49 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 50.3 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 68.01 years
male: 66.94 years
female: 69.13 years

Total fertility rate: 3.7 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1%

Religions: Sunni Muslim (state religion) 99%, Christian and Jewish 1%

Languages: Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
total population: 57%
male: 70%
female: 46%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria
conventional short form: Algeria

Type: republic

Capital: Algiers

Independence: 5 July 1962 (from France)

Constitution: 19 November 1976, effective 22 November 1976; revised 3 November 1988and 23 February 1989


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $97.1 billion

National product real growth rate: 0.2%

National product per capita: $3,480

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 30%

Unemployment rate: 30%

Electricity:
capacity: 5,370,000 kW
production: 18.3 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 587 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The volunteer staff of the 1996 Olympic Games totaled 50,152. They worked an estimated 850,000 shifts.