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Libya in crisis A look at Libya, its people and its economy Clashes
Oil/Gas fields
Oil/Gas fields
Libya’s people Benghazi: Oil pipelines
Oil pipelines
Population: 6.5 million (World rank: 101)
Where the Gas pipelines
Gas pipelines
Age structure: protests first
65+ years: 4.4% erupted Refinery
Refinery
Tripoli Tanker terminal
Tanker terminal
0-14 years: Ras Lanuf Al-Bayda Darnah
15-64 years: 33%
Misrata
oil refinery:
62.6% TUNISIA Reportedly Tobruk
closed due
to protests
Life expectancy at birth: 77.5 years (WR: 57)
Fertility rate: 3.01 children born/woman LIBYA Ajdabiya
School life expectancy:
(primary to tertiary education)
16 years for males, 17 for females
33%
of Libya’s 200km
Unemployment rate: 30% population lives
Population below poverty line: 33% 125 miles
in poverty
Ethnic groups:
(Indigenous people Area:
Berber: 97% of North Africa)
and Arab 1,759,540 sq km
— slightly larger than
Alaska (world rank: 17th) EGYPT
(includes Greeks, Maltese,
Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis,
Other: 3% Turks, Indians, and Tunisians)
Trade with Canada Exports
Religions: Literacy rate: 90% Exports to Libya: $44.89 billion (WR: 58)
is desert or Crude oil (contribute accounts for
Sunni Muslim: 97% semidesert (includes aircraft, machinery,
83% medical and technical instru- 95% of export earnings and 80% of
government revenue), refined
mentation and iron and steel
articles) petroleum products, natural gas

Other: 3% 78% 2006: $67 million Export partners: Italy 37.65%,

Germany 10.11%, France 8.44%,
ALGERIA of the population 2007: $195 million
Spain 7.94%, Switzerland 5.93%, US
is urban Imports from Libya: 5.27%
Libya’s oil
Production: NIGER
2006: 67 million Imports
2007 $0
1.6 million barrels Oil exports CHAD $24.47 billion (WR: 64)
of oil per day. Machinery, semi-finished goods,
Others food, transport equipment,
17th largest producer in the world Italy consumer products
20%
3rd largest producer in Africa U.S.: 5% 32%
Domestic oil onsumption: Spain 9%
44.3 Import partners: Italy 18.9%, China
10.54%, Turkey 9.92%, Germany
Germany 9.78%, France 5.63%, Tunisia 5.25%,
270,000 barrels a day China France 14% 37.2 South Korea 4.02%
Oil reserves: 10% 10%
44.3 billion barrels
Africa’s largest crude oil reserves African proven oil
Only about 3% of global supplies Risk of contagion reserve holders
At least some 100,000 barrels per While Libya itself does not produce enough oil to significantly
disrupt world supplies, concern has grown that political unrest
day
could continue to spread, specifically to Saudi Arabia. The Gulf 12.2 9.5
Oil export revenues: state supplies around 10 percent of the world's oil and also holds 5.0 3.7
$31.38 B per year most of the world's spare capacity at around 3-4 million barrels a
day. It is the only producer able to respond quickly with large Libya Nigeria Algeria Angola Sudan Egypt
volumes of oil to compensate for a serious outage.
Sources: CIA World Factbook; Graphic News; EIA; Reuters SUSAN BATSFORD/QMI AGENCY