style="font-size:15px;"> Agriculture:accounts for 12.8% of GDP (1993 est.) and employs 22% of labor force;
products- wheat, barley, oats, grapes, olives, citrus, fruits, sheep,
cattle; net importer of food - grain, vegetable oil, sugar
Economic aid:
recipient:
US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70–85), $1.4 billion; Western
(non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970–89), $925
million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979–89), $1.8 billion; Communist
countries (1970–89), $2.7 billion; net official disbursements
(1985–89), $375 million
Currency:
1 Algerian dinar (DA) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates:
Algerian dinars (DA) per US$1 - 36.008 (April 1994), 23.345 (1993),
21.836 (1992), 18.473 (1991), 8.958 (1990), 7.6086 (1989)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
@Algeria, Communications
Railroads:
4,060 km total; 2,616 km standard gauge (1.435 m), 1,188 km
1.055-meter gauge, 256 km 1.000-meter gauge; 300 km electrified; 215
km double track
Highways:
total:
90,031 km
paved:
concrete, bituminous 58,868 km
unpaved:
gravel, crushed stone, earth 31,163 km (1990)
Pipelines:
crude oil 6,612 km; petroleum products 298 km; natural gas 2,948 km
Ports:
Algiers, Annaba, Arzew, Bejaia, Djendjene, Ghazaouet, Jijel, Mers el
Kebir, Mostaganem, Oran, Skikda
Merchant marine:
75 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 903,179 GRT/1,064,211 DWT, bulk
9, cargo 27, chemical tanker 7, liquefied gas 9, oil tanker 5,
roll-on/roll-off cargo 12, short-sea passenger 5, specialized tanker 1
Airports:
total:
140
usable:
124
with permanent-surface runways:
53
with runways over 3,659 m:
2
with runways 2,440–3,659 m:
32
with runways 1,220–2,439 m:
65
Telecommunications:
excellent domestic and international service in the north, sparse in
the south; 822,000 telephones; broadcast stations - 26 AM, no FM, 18
TV; 1,600,000 TV sets; 5,200,000 radios; 5 submarine cables; microwave
radio relay to Italy, France, Spain, Morocco, and Tunisia; coaxial
cable to Morocco and Tunisia; satellite earth stations - 1 Atlantic
Ocean INTELSAT, 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT, 1 Intersputnik, l ARABSAT,
and 12 domestic; 20 additional satellite earth stations are planned
@Algeria, Defense Forces
Branches:
National Popular Army, Navy, Air Force, Territorial Air Defense
Manpower availability:
males age 15–49 6,863,378; fit for military service 4,215,767; reach
military age (19) annually 301,945 (1994 est.)
Defense expenditures:
exchange rate conversion - $1.36 billion, 2.5% of GDP (1993 est.)
@American Samoa
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Affiliation: (territory of the US)
@American Samoa, Geography
Location:
Oceania, Polynesia, in the South Pacific Ocean, 3,700 km
south-southwest of Honolulu, about halfway between Hawaii and New
Zealand
Map references:
Oceania
Area:
total area:
199 sq km
land area:
199 sq km
comparative area:
slightly larger than Washington, DC
note:
includes Rose Island and Swains Island
Land boundaries:
0 km
Coastline:
116 km
Maritime claims:
contiguous zone:
24 nm
continental shelf:
200-m depth or to depth of exploitation
exclusive economic zone:
200 nm
territorial sea:
12 nm
International disputes:
none
