Algeria launches population census
Algerian authorities on Wednesday launched a population census in the north African country, which will take some two weeks and is carried out every 10 years, the national statistics office said.
)According to Al-Fadjr newspaper, a recently released report by the Algerian National Statistics Office shows that the public industrial sector in Algeria had recorded a 2.2% output growth in the first nine months of 2008 compared with the same period last year.