• Location: North Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Egypt, Tunisia, and Algeria, southern border with Chad, Niger, and Sudan.
• Geographic Coordinates: 25 00 N, 17 00 E
• Area: 1,759,540 million sq. km. • Cities: Tripoli (capital), Benghazi.
• Land use: Arable land–1.03%; permanent crops–0.19%; other–98.78%
• Coastline: 1,770 km
• Ethnic Groups: Berber and Arab 97%, other 3% (includes Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians, and Tunisians)
• Nationality: Libyan
• Religion: Sunni Muslim 97%, other 3%
• Language: Arabic is the official language and is understood by virtually everyone, about 10% of the population
• Population (est): 6,036,914
• Annual growth rate (est.): 2.262%.
• Birth rate (est.)–26.09 births/1,000 population. Death rate (est.)–3.47 deaths/1,000 population.
• Education: Literacy total population 82.6%
• Health (est.): Infant mortality rate-22.82 deaths/ 1,000 live births. Life expectancy-total pop 76.88yrs; male 74.1yrs; female 78.58yrs.
• GDP (purchasing power parity): $74.72 billion (est.)
• GDP (official exchange rate): $57.06 billion (est)
• Real GDP growth rate: 5.8%. (est)
• GDP – per capita (PPP): $12,400 (est.)
• Natural resources: Oil Sector (95% export) – Petroleum, natural gas, gypsum.
• Agriculture: Products–wheat, barley, olives, dates, citrus, vegetables, peanuts, soybeans; cattle; approximately 75% of Libya’s food is imported.
• Industry: petroleum, food processing, textiles, handicrafts, cement.
• Exports: $42.97 billion f.o.b. (est.) crude oil, refined petroleum products, natural gas, chemicals
• Imports:$14.43 billion f.o.b. (est.) machinery, semi-finished goods, food, transport equipment, consumer products