% (1998 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $14.4 billion
expenditures: $15.7 billion, including capital expenditures of $4.4
million (1998 est.)

Industries: petroleum, natural gas, light industries, mining,
electrical, petrochemical, food processing

Industrial production growth rate: -4% (1997 est.)

Electricity--production: 18.4 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 98.91%
hydro: 1.09%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 18.13 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 490 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 220 million kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: wheat, barley, oats, grapes, olives,
citrus, fruits; sheep, cattle

Exports: $14 billion (f.o.b., 1997 est.)

Exports--commodities: petroleum and natural gas 97%

Exports--partners: Italy 18.8%, US 14.8%, France 11.8%, Spain 8%,
Germany 7.9% (1995 est.)

Imports: $8.5 billion (f.o.b., 1997 est.)

Imports--commodities: capital goods, food and beverages, consumer
goods

Imports--partners: France 29%, Spain 10.5%, Italy 8.2%, US 8%,
Germany 5.6% (1995 est.)

Debt--external: $31.4 billion (1998 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $897.5 million (1994)

Currency: 1 Algerian dinar (DA) = 100 centimes

Exchange rates: Algerian dinars (DA) per US$1--61.264 (January
1999), 58.739 (1998), 57.707 (1997), 54.749 (1996), 47.663 (1995),
35.059 (1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 1,381,342 (5,200 cellular telephone subscribers)
(1997)

Telephone system:
domestic: good service in north but sparse in south; domestic
satellite system with 12 earth stations (20 additional domestic
earth stations are planned)
international: 5 submarine cables; microwave radio relay to Italy,
France, Spain, Morocco, and Tunisia; coaxial cable to Morocco and
Tunisia; participant in Medarabtel; satellite earth stations--2
Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Intersputnik, and
1 Arabsat

Radio broadcast stations: AM 23, FM 1, shortwave 8 (1998 est.)

Radios: 3.5 million (1998 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 18 (not including low-power
stations) (1997)

Televisions: 2 million (1998 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 4,772 km
standard gauge: 3,616 km 1.435-m gauge (301 km electrified; 215 km
double track)
narrow gauge: 1,156 km 1.055-m gauge

Highways:
total: 102,424 km
paved: 70,570 km (inc