Demographics6

Language: Arabic
Ethnicity/race: Arab 90%, Afro-Asian 10%
Religion: Islam 100%
Literacy rate: 79% (2003 est.)
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2007 est.): $564.6 billion; per capita $23,200.
Unemployment: 13% male only (local bank estimate; some estimates range as high as 25%) (2004 est.).
Population
28,686,633
note: includes 5,576,076 non-nationals (July 2009 est.)
Age structure
0-14 years: 38% (male 5,557,453/female 5,340,614)
15-64 years: 59.5% (male 9,608,032/female 7,473,543)
65 years and over: 2.5% (male 363,241/female 343,750) (2009 est.)