- Capital: Tripoli
- POPULATION: 5.901 Million
- LANGUAGES: Arabic, Italian, English
- Median age: 23
- Birth Rate per 1000 people: 26.49
- Death Rate per 1000 people: 3.48
- Life expectancy: 76.69
- Literacy(definition: age 15 and over can read and write)
  total population: 82.6%
  male: 92.4%
  female: 72% (2003 est.)
- Independence: 24 December 1951 from Italy
- GDP per capita: $8,400

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