| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - In spite of the contraction of the oil sector between 2002 and 2003, the nation???s rate of economic growth reached 6.8 and 6.5 percent for 2003-2004.[47] Due to the population explosion, however, the unemployment rate, particularly among the young, continued to remain high, hovering around 16 percent between 2000 and 2002, but declining to 15.7 because of the rates of growth.[48] This progress, h
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