Imports - commodities:
capital goods, foodstuffs, consumer goods
Imports - partners:
France 30.9%, Italy 9.6%, Spain 6.1%, Germany 5.5%, China 4.6%,
Turkey 4.1% (2003)
Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$33.42 billion (2003)
Debt - external:
$22.71 billion (2003 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$182 million (2001 est.)
Currency:
Algerian dinar (DZD)
Currency code:
DZD
Exchange rates:
Algerian dinars per US dollar - 77.395 (2003), 79.6819 (2002),
77.215 (2001), 75.2598 (2000), 66.5739 (1999)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Algeria
Telephones - main lines in use:
2,199,600 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
1,447,310 (2003)
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of the infrastructure is outdated and inefficient
domestic: good service in north but sparse in south; domestic
satellite system with 12 earth stations (20 additional domestic
earth stations are planned)
international: country code - 213; 5 submarine cables; microwave
radio relay to Italy, France, Spain, Morocco, and Tunisia; coaxial
cable to Morocco and Tunisia; participant in Medarabtel; satellite
earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1
Intersputnik, and 1 Arabsat (1998)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 25, FM 1, shortwave 8 (1999)
Radios:
7.1 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
46 (plus 216 repeaters) (1995)
Televisions:
3.1 million (1997)
Internet country code:
.dz
Internet hosts:
897 (2004)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
2 (2000)
Internet users:
500,000 (2002)
Transportation Algeria
Railways:
total: 3,973 km
standard gauge: 2,888 km 1.435-m gauge (283 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 1,085 km 1.055-m gauge (2003)
Highways:
total: 104,000 km
paved: 71,656 km (including 640 km of expressways)
unpaved: 32,344 km (1999)
Pipelines:
condensate 1,344 km; gas 85,946 km; liquid petroleum gas 2,213 km;
oil 6,496 km (2004)
Ports and harbors:
Algiers, Annaba, Arzew, Bejaia, Beni Saf, Dellys, Djendjene,
Ghazaouet, Jijel, Mostaganem, Oran, Skikda, Tenes
Merchant marine:
total: 59 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 837,676 GRT/929,847 DWT
by type: bulk 9, cargo 16, chemical tanker 6, liquefied gas 10,
petroleum tanker 4, roll on/roll off 9, short-sea/passenger 4,
specialized tanker 1
foreign-owned: United Kingdom 4
registered in other countries: 4 (2004 est.)
Airports:
137 (2003 est.)
Airports - with paved runways: total: 52 over 3,047 m: 10 2,438 to 3,047 m: 27 914 to 1,523 m: 4 under 914 m: 1 (2004 est.) 1,524 to 2,437 m: 10
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 85
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 26
under 914 m: 19 (2004 est.)
914 to 1,523 m: 38
Heliports:
1 (2003 est.)
Military Algeria
Military branches:
People's National Army (ANP; includes Ground Forces), Algerian
National Navy (ANN), Air Force (QJA), Territorial Air Defense
Military manpower - military age and obligation:
19–30 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript
service obligation - 18 months (October 2003)
Military manpower - availability:
males age 15–49: 9,311,747 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15–49: 5,675,739 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 373,235 (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$2,196.6 million (2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
3.5% (2003)
Transnational Issues Algeria
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 afer 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
Refugees and internally displaced persons: refugees (country of origin): 165,000 (Western Saharan Sahrawi, mostly living in Algerian-sponsored camps in the southeastern Algerian town of Tindouf) IDPs: 100,000 - 200,000