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   People's Democratic Republic of Algeria

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     Country Name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria

    Head of State: President Abdelaziz BOUTEFLIKA

    Area: 2,381,740㎢

    Government type: republic cabinet member:

    Capital: Algiers

    National day: 1, November (revolutin day 1954)

    Population: 40m (July 2016)

    Population growth rate: 1.77% (2016 est)

    Population Density: 14 p/㎢

    Language: Arabic (official), French (lingua franca), Berber dialects: Kabylie Berber (Tamazight), Chaouia Berber (Tachawit), Mzab Berber, Tuareg Berber (Tamahaq)

    Religion: Sunni Muslim (state religion) 99%, Christian and Jewish 1%

    Ethnic groups: Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1%

    GDP - real growth rate: 3.6% (2016)

    GDP per capita (ppp): US$15, 000 (2016 est)

    Currency: AD=100centimes exchange rate

    GDP composition by sector: agriculture: 13.2%, industry: 38.4%, services: 48.4% (2016 est.)

    Military expenditure/GDP: 3.3% (2006)

    Fiscal Year: 11.1 ~ 12.31

    Life expectancy: total population: 76.8 years, male: 75.5 years, female: 78.2 years (2012 est.)

    IIiteracy: total population: 19.8%, male: 12.8%, female: 26.0% (2016 est.)

   

 

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 After more than a century of rule by France, Algerians fought through much of the 1950s to achieve independence in 1962. Algeria's primary political party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), was established in 1954 as part of the struggle for independence and has since largely dominated politics. The Government of Algeria in 1988 instituted a multi-party system in response to public unrest, but the surprising first round success of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in the December 1991 balloting led the Algerian army to intervene and postpone the second round of elections to prevent what the secular elite feared would be an extremist-led government from assuming power. The army began a crackdown on the FIS that spurred FIS supporters to begin attacking government targets. Fighting escalated into an insurgency, which saw intense violence from 1992-98, resulting in over 100,000 deaths - many attributed to indiscriminate massacres of villagers by extremists. The government gained the upper hand by the late-1990s, and FIS's armed wing, the Islamic Salvation Army, disbanded in January 2000.

Abdelaziz BOUTEFLIKA, with the backing of the military, won the presidency in 1999 in an election widely viewed as fraudulent and won subsequent elections in 2004, 2009, and 2014. The government in 2011 introduced some political reforms in response to the Arab Spring, including lifting the 19-year-old state of emergency restrictions and increasing women's quotas for elected assemblies, while also increasing subsidies to the populace. Since 2014, Algeria’s reliance on hydrocarbon revenues to fund the government and finance the large subsidies for the population has fallen under stress because of declining oil prices.(CIA World Factbook)

 

  


Source: S.M. Hong, Islamic Economy & Finance (2009),  Middle Eastern Economy (1997), Middle Eastern Economics (1991), BBC, Country Profile, CIA, The World Fact Book & WIKIPEDIA , 2017, Population Density, GeographyIQ.com  and GeographyIQ.

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