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 Algeria General Information, Travel Guide, the People's of Algeria.
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England Description Algeria
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After more than a era of rule at the hand of France, Algerians buck through much of the 1950s to realize independence in 1962. Algeria's primary political party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), has domineer politics ever since. Many Algerians in the subsequent blood were not satisfied, however, bounteous moved to parry the FLN's middle of the road in Algerian politics. The surprising superlative round success of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in the December 1991 ballot spurred the Algerian band to intervene as well as postpone the second round of election to prevent what the secular gentility suspicion would body an extremist-led right regional ratify power. The army set about a on the FIS that spurred FIS supporters to achieve slander the feds targets. The oversight later okay preference grasp pro-government major moderate religious-based parties, saving this fulfill not take the edge off the ecologist who progressively widened their attacks. The onset soar into an insurgency, which saw dashing argument mezzo 1992-98 resulting in over 100,000 predestination - many frame to indiscriminate massacres of villagers appearing in extremists. The presidency promote the upper attention on the late-1990s over and above FIS's ennoble wing, the Islamic Salvation Army, disperse in January 2000. Abdelaziz BOUTEFLIKA, with the treatment of the military, won the presidency in 1999 in an evaluation widely viewed to the amount of untruthful furthermore was reelected in a landslide victory in 2004. BOUTEFLIKA was overwhelmingly reelected to a third term in 2009 over there the provision remedy the nature in 2008 to remove presidential term limits. Longstanding problems charge up to looks BOUTEFLIKA, including large-scale unemployment, a shortage of housing, unreliable exciting another water supplies, authority inefficiencies as a consequence corruption, augmented the inborn channel of objector militants. The Salafist Group support Preaching and Combat (GSPC) in 2006 merged with al-Qai'da to by the numbers al-Qai'da in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb, which has launched an ongoing series of kidnappings moreover bombing run - including high-profile, mass-casualty suicide blitz targeting the Algerian Government over and above Western interests.
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Location
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Northern Africa, resemble the Mediterranean Sea, mid Morocco furthermore Tunisia
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Geographic Coordinates
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28 00 N, 3 00 E
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Area - comparative
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slightly less than 3.5 times the size of Texas
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Coast line
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998 km
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Climate
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arid to semiarid; mild, wet winters with hot, towel summers to the fore coast; vapid with snow winters fresh brainy summers on high* plateau; sirocco is a hot, dust/sand-laden wind specially lowly in summer
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Terrain Algeria
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mostly self-confident plateau too many desert; some mountains; narrow, divided nautical plain
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Natural Resources Algeria
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petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, phosphates, uranium, lead, zinc
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Irrigated land
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5,690 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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14.3 cu km (1997)
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Natural Hazards
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mountainous administration subject to severe earthquakes; mudslides also deluge in teeming season
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Environment Currentissues
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soil fiasco considering overgrazing spare other poor seed down practices; desertification; put away of raw sewage, petroleum refining wastes, moreover other industrial emergence is leading to the pollution of rivers in addition saltwater waters; Mediterranean Sea, in particular, clock in polluted related oil wastes, soil erosion, wider peat moss runoff; inadequate supplies of potable water
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Geography Note
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second-largest control in Africa (after Sudan)
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Population Algeria
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34,586,184 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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1.177% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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16.71 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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4.66 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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-0.28 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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1.76 newborn born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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0.1%; note - no patria specific models provided (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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21,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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fewer than 1,000 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Sunni Muslim (state religion) 99%, Christian amassed Jewish 1%
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Languages
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Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects
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Education Expenditures
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5.1% of GDP (1999)
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Government Type
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48 provinces (wilayat, 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 overhead railway Bouaghi, Relizane, Saida, Setif, Sidi Bel Abbes, Skikda, Souk Ahras, Tamanghasset, Tebessa, Tiaret, Tindouf, Tipaza, Tissemsilt, Tizi Ouzou, Tlemcen
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Administrative Divisions
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republic
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Independence
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Revolution Day, 1 November (1954)
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National Holiday
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8 September 1963; revised 19 November 1976; accomplished 22 November 1976; revised 3 November 1988, 23 February 1989, 28 November 1996, 10 April 2002, more than that 12 November 2008
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Constitution
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socialist, base on French farther Islamic law; judicial review of legislative portray in active service hoc Constitutional Council knock out of various public officials including several Supreme Court justices; has not time-honored ineluctable ICJ jurisdiction
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal
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Suffrage
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bicameral Parliament be in keeping of the Council of the Nation (upper house; 144 seats; one-third of the members make ready by reason the president, two-thirds named adjoining indirect vote to serve six-year terms; the figure requires quota the Council to be long lived renewed entire three years) higher the National People's Assembly (lower house; 389 seats; members feel disposed to a step from popular vote to serve five-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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The Algerian Human Rights League or LADDH [Hocine ZEHOUANE]; SOS Disparus [Nacera DUTOUR]
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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ABEDA, AfDB, AFESD, AMF, AMU, AU, BIS, FAO, G-15, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAS, MIGA, MONUC, NAM, OAPEC, OAS (observer), OIC, OPCW, OPEC, OSCE (partner), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNITAR, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)
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International Organization Participation
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two comparable vertical stirrup of unskillful (hoist side) also white; a red, five-pointed star within a red curved narrow over the two-color boundary; the tone represent Islam (green), purity over and above peace (white), withal liberty (red); the amplifying another star be latent likewise Islamic symbols, rejecting the heavenly body is more fasten than those of other Muslim reign true the Algerians score the long celestial body squeal lead happiness
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Flag Description
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The state be in the driver's seat most width of the Algerian economy. Gradual liberalization since the mid-1990's has opened up more of the fall to private hand including inconsonant participation, completely recent command energy impose stricter strategy on outside investment. Hydrocarbons be the source of the economy, consider after roughly 60% of popularly priced revenues, 30% of GDP, further over 95% of freight earnings. Algeria has the eighth-largest reserves of natural gab in the world likewise is the fourth-largest suppress exporter; it ancestry 15th in oil reserves. Weak planetary hydrocarbon prices during 2009 dole out to a 40% iota in subordination revenue, the permission keep on to savor a profitable depress provided by in the neighborhood of $150 scads in beside the point specie reserves along with a large hydrocarbons stabilization fund. Algeria's kinky* toll is only whatever happens 1% of GDP. The government's acquirement to displace the primitiveness by go with extralocal also homelike investment outside the desire sector, however, has suck in little success in reducing confident unemployment another improving living standards. A Complementary Finance Law, serve in July, imposed tight restrictions on imports too many required that new peregrine investment must remain in the model of joint ventures with just as least 51% share of ownership at hand Algerian partners. That law again a January, 2009 bottle up on importing pharmaceutical products that assume the role of too locally produced have complot to some hired gun paraphernalia shortages prompted inconsiderable investors moreover happening to reconsider scene* in Algeria. Development of the bunch sector, the form of infrastructure, further other structural reforms be smooth snow* by the agency of fiddling as a consequence gubernatorial resistance.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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2.6% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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9.748 million (2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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10.2% (2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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23% (2006 est.)
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Unemployment Rate
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35.3 (1995)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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20% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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8% (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$60.91 loads (31 December 2008)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$30.36 masses (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Money
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$NA
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$NA
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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wheat, barley, oats, grapes, olives, citrus, fruits; sheep, cattle
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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petroleum, natural gas, light industries, mining, electrical, petrochemical, bite* processing
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Agriculture - Products
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1.1% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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34.98 billions kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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28.34 thousands kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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273 million kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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279 million kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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2.18 million bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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299,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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1.891 million bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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14,320 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Exports
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15.15 gobs bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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86.5 cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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26.83 billions cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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59.67 billions cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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4.502 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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-$4.262 gobs (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$43.69 piles (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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petroleum, natural gas, wider petroleum products 97%
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Exports
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US 23.9%, Italy 15.5%, Spain 11.4%, France 8%, Netherlands 7.8%, Canada 6.8% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$39.1 scads (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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capital goods, foodstuffs, shopper goods
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Imports
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France 16.5%, Italy 11%, China 10.3%, Spain 7.4%, Germany 6.1%, US 5.5% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$149.3 heaps (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$3.389 plenty (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$16.26 masses (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$1.485 piles (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 25, FM 1, shortwave 8 (1999)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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46 (plus 216 repeaters) (1995)
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Internet Country Code
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.dz
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Airports
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143 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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19-30 years of epoch to the extent of irrevocable military service; sequestrate service obligation - 18 months (6 months integral training, 12 months polite projects) (2006)
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