1986 Edition

Agriculture

main crops — corn, wheat, potatoes, tobacco, sugar beets, cotton

main crops — wheat, barley, oats, grapes, olives, citrus fruits, dates, vegetables, sheep, cattle, industrial crops

Airfields

155 total, 149 usable; 56 with permanent-surface runways; 28 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 73 with runways 1, 220-2,439 m Defense Forces

Branches

executive; unicameral legislature (National People's Assembly); judiciary

Armed Forces, Army, Navy, Air Force, National Gendarmerie

Budget

$20 billion revenue, $20 billion expenditure (1984)

Capital

Algiers

Civil air

42 major transport aircraft

Communists

400 (est.); Communist Party illegal (banned 1962)

Crude steel

842,000 metric tons produced (1982)

Elections

presidential, 12 January 1984; departmental assemblies, 2 June 1974; local assemblies, 30 March 1975; legislative, 5 March 1982 Political parties and leaders: National Liberation Front (FLN), Secretary General Chadli Bendjedid

Electric power

1,540,000 kW capacity (1985); 4.7 billion kWh produced (1985), 1, 584 kWh per capita

3,142,300 kW capacity (1985); 11. 148 billion kWh produced (1985), 506 kWh per capita

Exports

$290 million (1983 est); asphalt, bitumen, petroleum products, metals and metallic ores, electricity, oil, vegetables, fruits, and tobacco

$12.6 billion (f .o.b., 1984); petroleum and gas account for 98.0% of exports; US 39.0%, France 23.0% (1984)

Fiscal year

calendar year Communications

GDP

$51.9 billion (1984 est.), $2,430 per capita; 5.0% real growth in 1985

GNP

$2.6-2.8 billion (1985); approximately $900 per capita (1984)

Government leaders

Col. Chadli BENDJEDID, President (since February 1979); Abdelhamid BRAHIMI, Prime Minister (since January 1984)

Highways

78,410 km total; 45,070 km concrete or bituminous, 33,340 km gravel, crushed stone, unimproved earth

Imports

$280 million (1983); machinery, machine tools, iron and steel products, textiles, chemicals, Pharmaceuticals

$10.0 billion (f .o.b., 1984); major items — capital goods 35.0%, semifinished goods 25.0%, foodstuffs 18.0%; France 25.7%, US 6.0%

Labor force

3.7 million (1984); 40% industry and commerce, 30% agriculture, 17% government, 10% services; at least 1 1% of urban labor unemployed

Legal system

based on French and Islamic law, with socialist principles; new constitution adopted by referendum November 1976; judicial review of legislative acts in ad hoc Constitutional Council composed of various public officials, including several Supreme Court justices; Supreme Court divided into four chambers; legal education at Universities of Algiers, Oran, and Constantine; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

Major industries

agricultural products and processing, textiles and clothing, lumber, and extractive industries (chrome and oil)

petroleum, light industries, natural gas, mining, petrochemical, electrical, automotive plants (under construction), and food processing

Major trade partners

exports — Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Italy, Poland, Austria; imports — Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, FRG, Romania, Poland, Italy, Greece,

US, FRG, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Canada

Member of

AfDB, AIOEC, Arab League, ASSIMER, FAO, G-77, GATT (de facto), IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IDE— Islamic Development Bank, IFAD, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, International Lead and Zinc Study Group, INTERPOL, IOOC, ITU, NAM, OAPEC, OAU, QIC, OPEC, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO Economy

Military manpower

males 15-49, 4,892,000; 3,024,000 fit for military service; 248,000 reach military age (19) annually

Monetary conversion rate

5. 1 Algerian dinars=US$l (August 1984)

National holiday

Anniversary of the Revolution, 1 November

Natural resources

oil, gas, coal, chromium

crude oil, natural gas, iron ore, phosphates, uranium, lead, zinc, mercury

Official name

Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria

Organized labor

16-19% of labor force claimed; General Union of Algerian Workers (UGTA) is the only labor organization and is subordinate to the National Liberation Front Government

Pipelines

crude oil, 6,612 km; refined products, 298 km; natural gas, 2,948 km

Political subdivisions

31 wilayas (departments or provinces); 160 dairat (administrative districts); 691 communes

Ports

6 major, 6 secondary, 10 minor

Railroads

3,950 km total; 2,690 km standard gauge (1.435 m), 1,140 km 1.055-meter gauge, 120 km 1.000-meter gauge; 320 km electrified; 193 km double track

Shortages

spare parts, machinery and equipment, some food products and consumer goods

Suffrage

universal adult at age 18

Type

republic