OFID Member Countries
Official country name: Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria
National capital: Algiers
Location: In northern Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the North, Mali and Niger to the south, Tunisia and Libya to the east, and Morocco and Mauritania to the west.
Area: 2.38 million km2 (second largest country in Africa)
| Natural Resources: | petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, phosphates, uranium, lead, zinc |
| Structure of output (value added, % of GDP): | agriculture 12.1%, industry 75.7%, services 12.2% (2001) |
| Population: | 30.9 million (2001) |
| Urban population: | 57.7% (2001) |
| Life expectancy at birth, total (years, 2000): | 71.0 |
| Population growth rate: | 1.6% (2001) |
| Principal exports: | petroleum, natural gas and manufactures |
| Exports of goods and services: | US$22.02 billion (2000) |
| Principal imports: | food and live animals, machinery and transport equipment, consumer goods |
| Imports of goods and services: | US$11.7 billion (2000) |
| GDP: | US$54.7 billion (2001) |
| Annual growth: | 2.8% (2001) |
| GDP per capita: | US$1,769 (2001) |
| Inflation (annual %): | 4.2% (2001) |
| Total external debt: | US$29.0 billion (1999) |
| Total debt service: | US$5.3 billion (1999) |
| Debt service (% of exports of goods and services, 2000): | 19.6% |
| National currency: | Algerian dinar (AD) |
| OPEC Fund Ministerial Council Member: | H.E. Karim Djoudi, Minister of Finance |
| OPEC Fund Governing Board Representative: | Mr. Mohamed Benmeradi, Director-General of National Domain, Ministry of Finance |
| OPEC Fund Alternate Governing Board Representative: | Mr. Abdelmalek Zoubeidi, Director-General of Studies and Projections, Ministry of Finance, |