OFID Member Countries
Official country name: Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
National capital: Tripoli
Location: Extending along the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, bordering Tunisia and Algeria to the west, Niger and Chad to the south, Egypt to the east, and Sudan to the south-east.
Area: 1.76 million km2
| Natural Resources: | petroleum, natural gas |
| Structure of output (value added, % of GDP): | n/a |
| Population: | 5.4 million (2001) |
| Urban population: | 87.9% |
| Life expectancy at birth, total (years, 2000): | 71.0 |
| Population growth rate: | 2.3% (2001) |
| Principal exports: | mineral fuels, lubricants |
| Exports of goods and services: | US$8.80 billion (1999) |
| Principal imports: | food and live animals, machinery and transport equipment, and basic manufactured goods |
| Imports of goods and services: | US$6.48 billion (1999) |
| GDP: | US$28.6 billion (2001) |
| Average Annual growth: | 0.6% (2001) |
| GDP per capita: | US$5,031 (2001) |
| Inflation (annual %): | -8.5% (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: | Libyan dinar (LD) |
| Average Exchange Rate: | LD 0.597 = US$1 (2001) |
| OPEC Fund Ministerial Council Member: | H.E. Mohammed Ali Elhuwej, Secretary of the General People's Committee of Finance |
| OPEC Fund Governing Board Representative: | Mr. El Boueshi M. Ellafi, General Manager, Tax Department of Libya, Secretariat of the General People's Committee of Finance |
| OPEC Fund Governing Board Alternate: | Mr. Mustafa Keshada, Director of the Committee Affairs, Secretariat of the General People's Committee of Finance |