With its major energy resources, human potential, agricultural productivity reserves, its untouched tourism assets, an industrial and infrastructure fabric that is unique in the Maghreb, at the beginning of the millennium Algeria represents a market of over 30 million people with an interesting range of investment opportunities.
Main production
Oil, gas, chemicals, petrochemicals, fertiliser, mines, steel manufacturing, food processing industry, capital equipment industries, agricultural equipment industries, civil engineering and industrial machinery, textile and manufacturing industries, electro-technical and electronics industries.
Development objectives
Five year programme to support growth + complementary programme for the wilayas (provinces) in the south and for those on the high plateaux:
- Budget: 8,000 billion Algerian Dinar (over 100 billion USD).
Close to 1,200,000 housing units, close to 500 high schools, more than 1,000 junior high schools, more than 2,000 canteens and half board establishments, nearly 500,000 university places and 50,000 vocational training places, 40 hospitals, 10 dams and more than 10,000 km of new or renovated roads as well as connecting over 600,000 rural households to an electricity supply and 1,200,000 to a natural gas supply.
A road network of 100,000 km for more than 2 million vehicles, a figure that is constantly increasing. A 4,000 km railway network currently being extended and modernised. Aircraft serving 25 towns within the country and 32 capitals and towns in 24 countries. 10 commercial ports and 35 fishing ports. A telecommunications infrastructure that integrates the latest technological advances and assures extensive coverage of the country.