Libya 
Facts
Population:
5,240,599
note:
includes 662,669 non-nationals, of which an estimated 500,000 or more are Africans living in Libya (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
35.41% (male 947,645; female 907,854)
15-64 years:
60.64% (male 1,645,085; female 1,533,066)
65 years and over:
3.95% (male 101,701; female 105,248) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.42% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
27.67 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
3.51 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.04 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1.07 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.97 male(s)/female
total population:
1.06 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
28.99 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
75.65 years
male:
73.53 years
female:
77.88 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
3.64 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.05% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
NA
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
NA
Nationality:
noun:
Libyan(s)
adjective:
Libyan
Ethnic groups:
Berber and Arab 97%, Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians, Tunisians
Religions:
Sunni Muslim 97%
Languages:
Arabic, Italian, English, all are widely understood in the major cities
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
76.2%
male:
87.9%
female:
63% (1995 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $45.4 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
6.5% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $8,900 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
7%
industry:
47%
services:
46% (1997 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
NA%
highest 10%:
NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
18.5% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
1.5 million (2000 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
services and government 54%, industry 29%, agriculture 17% (1997 est.)
Unemployment rate:
30% (2000 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$6.85 billion
expenditures:
$4.4 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries:
petroleum, food processing, textiles, handicrafts, cement
Industrial production growth rate:
NA%
Electricity - production:
18.9 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
100%
hydro:
0%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
17.577 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
wheat, barley, olives, dates, citrus, vegetables, peanuts, soybeans; cattle
Exports:
$13.9 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
crude oil, refined petroleum products
Exports - partners:
Italy 33%, Germany 24%, Spain 10%, France 5%, Turkey 4%, Tunisia 4% (1999)
Imports:
$7.6 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery, transport equipment, food, manufactured goods
Imports - partners:
Italy 24%, Germany 12%, Tunisia 9%, UK 7%, France 6%, South Korea 5% (1999)
Debt - external:
$4.1 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$8.4 million (1995)
Currency:
Libyan dinar (LYD)
Currency code:
LYD
Exchange rates:
Libyan dinars per US dollar - 0.5101 (January 2001), 0.5081 (2000), 0.4616 (1999), 0.3785 (1998), 0.3891 (1997), 0.3651 (1996)
note:
Libya currently has two rates for foreign trade; one for government operations and foreign companies and one for Libyan individuals (0.45 dinars per US dollar in December 1998)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
Press
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Al-Balagh
(Pro-government), Tripoli
(Pro-government), Tripoli
http://www.alfajraljadeed.com/
(Government-owned weekly), Tripoli
http://www.aljamahiria.com/
Al-Jihad
(Pro-government), Tripoli
Al-Ra'I
(Pro-government), Tripoli
Al-Shura
(Pro-government), Benghazi
(pro-government), Tripoli
http://www.azzahfalakhder.com/
Libya in the News
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Charles Lambroschini, a journalist with the conservative Parisian daily Le Figaro, interviews Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi about the Iraq crisis and its possible aftermath.
Peter Valenti reviews Arab press coverage of Libya's withdrawal from the Arab League.
Libyan Leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi once identified Sierra Leone’s President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah as a pliable fellow Muslim who would be able to achieve his goals, one of which is to erase British influence in Sierra Leone.
The outbreak of violence was described as a reaction by Libyan youths to the surge of more than a million legal and illegal immigrants from Nigeria, Sudan, Ghana, Chad, Niger, Guinea, and Came-roon who have been drawn to oil-rich Libya for work.
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