Official title:
People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria
General information:
Capital: Algiers
Population: 45.5 milion people (as of 2021)
Total area: 2,3 million km2
Currency: Algerian dinar (DZD)
National holiday: Independence Day 5th July (1962), Revolution Day, 1st November (1954)
Official language: Arabic
Other languages: Berber dialects (constitutionally national), French (lingua franca)
Ethnic groups: Arab-Berber (99%), European (1%) *
Type of government:
Unitary semi-presidential republic
Diplomatic and consular representative: H.E. Mr Abdelhafid Alahoum (Hungary – Budapest)
Economy:
- GDP (nominal): $175.9 billion (2021 est.)
- GDP (nominal) per capital: $3.885 (2021 est.)
- GDP (PPP): $698.7 billion (2021 est.)
- GDP (PPP) per capita: $15.411 (2021 est.)
- GDP (official exchange rate): $155.3 billion (2021 est.)
- GDP (real growth rate): 3.9% (2021 est.)
GDP per sector:
- Agriculture 12,2%
- Industry 38,6%
- Services 49,2% (2021 est.)
Agriculture products: wheat, barley, oats, grapes, olives, citrus, figs, dates meat, dairy products.
Main industries: petroleum, natural gas, light industries (such as food processing, textiles and leather goods), cement, fertilizers, metals and metal processing, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, constructuion materials.
Trade – Export
Exported commodities: petroleum and petroleum products, natural gas, fertilizers, iron and steel, non-ferric metals, phosphates, textiless, vegetables.
Main export partners:
- Italy (17,7% of total exports)
- Spain (14,4%)
- France(11,8%)
- Turkey (7,4%)
- Netherlands 4,8%
- United Kingdom 4,4%
- United States 4,3%
- China 3,3%
- Germany 3,2%
- Brazil 2.4% (2020 est.)
Trade – Import
Imported commodities: capital goods, foodstuffs, consumer goods, industrial goods, semi-finished goods, fuel and lubricants.
Main import partners:
- China 17,5% of total imports
- France 11,7%
- Italy 10,2%
- Spain 7,5%
- Turkey 5,5%
- Germany 5,1%
- United States 4,9%
- Russia 4,4%
- Brazil 3,4%
- South Korea 3,3%(2020 est.)
* Although almost all Algerians are Berber in origin (not Arab), only a minority identify themselves as Berber, about 15% of the total population; these people live mostly in the mountainous region of Kabylie east of Algiers; the Berbers are also Muslim but identify with their Berber rather than Arab cultural heritage; Berbers have long agitated, sometimes violently, for autonomy; the government is unlikely to grant autonomy but has offered to begin sponsoring teaching Berber language in schools.