Imports - commodities: capital goods, food and beverages, consumer goods
Imports - partners: France 29.5%, Italy 9.8%, US 7.2%, Spain 6.8%,
Germany 6.2%, Canada 4.1% (1998)
Debt - external: $30 billion (1999 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $897.5 million (1994)
Currency: 1 Algerian dinar (DA) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates: Algerian dinars (DA) per US$1 - 69.046 (January 2000), 66.574 (1999), 58.739 (1998), 57.707 (1997), 54.749 (1996), 47.663 (1995)
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Telephones - main lines in use: 1.176 million (1995)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 33,500 (1999)