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- Algeria: Economy
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- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Algeria
- Economy</hdr><body>
- <p>Overview: The oil and natural gas sector forms the backbone of
- the economy, hydrocarbons accounting for nearly all export
- receipts, about 30% of government revenues, and nearly 25% of
- GDP. In 1973-74 the sharp increase in oil prices led to a
- booming economy and helped to finance an ambitious program of
- industrialization. Plunging oil and gas prices, combined with
- the mismanagement of Algeria's highly centralized economy, has
- brought the nation to its most serious social and economic
- crisis since full independence in 1988. The current government
- has put reform, including privatization of some public sector
- companies and an overhaul of the banking and financial system,
- on hold, but has continued efforts to admit private enterprise
- to the hydrocarbon industry.
- </p>
- <p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $42 billion
- (1992 est.)
- </p>
- <p>National product real growth rate: 2.8% (1992 est.)
- </p>
- <p>National product per capita: $1,570 (1992 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 55% (1992 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Unemployment rate: 35% (1992 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Budget: revenues $14.4 billion; expenditures $14.6 billion,
- including capital expenditures of $3.5 billion (1992 est.)
- </p>
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- <l>Exports: $11.6 billion (f.o.b., 1992 est.)</l>
- <l> commodities: petroleum and natural gas 97%</l>
- <l> partners: Italy, France, US, Germany, Spain</l>
- <l>Imports: $8.2 billion (f.o.b., 1992 est.)</l>
- <l> commodities: capital goods 39.7%, food and beverages 21.7%,
- consumer goods 11.8% (1990)</l>
- <l> partners: France, Italy, Germany, US, Spain</l>
- </list>
- <p>External debt: $26 billion (1992 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Industrial production: growth rate NA%
- </p>
- <p>Electricity: 6,380,000 kW capacity; 16,834 million kWh
- produced, 630 kWh per capita (1992)
- </p>
- <p>Industries: petroleum, light industries, natural gas, mining,
- electrical, petrochemical, food processing
- </p>
- <p>Agriculture: accounts for 10.8% of GDP (1991) and employs 22%
- of labor force; products - wheat, barley, oats, grapes, olives,
- citrus, fruits, sheep, cattle; net importer of food - grain,
- vegetable oil, sugar
- </p>
- <p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-85), $1.4
- billion; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
- commitments (1970-89), $925 million; OPEC bilateral aid
- (1979-89), $1.8 billion; Communist countries (1970-89), $2.7
- billion; net official disbursements (1985-89), -$375 million
- </p>
- <p>Currency: 1 Algerian dinar (DA)=100 centimes
- </p>
- <p>Exchange rates: Algerian dinars (DA) per US$1 - 22.787
- (January 1993), 21.836 (1992), 18.473 (1991), 8.958 (1990),
- 7.6086 (1989), 5.9148 (1988)
- </p>
- <p>Fiscal year: calendar year
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