Algeria vs Libya
Algeria vs Libya: Military share of state spending
Military share of state spending: 24.6% of government spending in Algeria in 2025 and 5.5% of government spending in Libya in 2023, by SIPRI estimates. In 2023 the value was higher in Algeria, by 14.3 percentage points, or 3.61 times that in Libya.
% of government spending · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Algeria has been higher since 1999, when it overtook Libya.
Every year
% of government spending · SIPRI
| Year | Algeria | Libya |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24.6 | – |
| 2024 | 22 | – |
| 2023 | 19.7 | 5.5 |
| 2022 | 12.4 | 4.5 |
| 2021 | 15 | – |
| 2020 | 15.7 | – |
| 2019 | 14.4 | – |
| 2018 | 13.6 | – |
| 2017 | 14.6 | – |
| 2016 | 15.2 | – |
| 2015 | 13.6 | – |
| 2014 | 13.4 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 13.2 | 7.2 |
| 2012 | 10.3 | 8.2 |
| 2011 | 10.5 | – |
| 2010 | 9.1 | – |
| 2009 | 8.8 | – |
| 2008 | 7.7 | 3.1 |
| 2007 | 8.4 | 2.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | 3.6 |
| 2005 | 9.8 | 5 |
| 2004 | 11.3 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 11.1 | 4.8 |
| 2002 | 10.5 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 12.1 | 6.3 |
| 2000 | 12 | 10.3 |
| 1999 | 11.7 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 12.7 | 14.2 |
| 1997 | 11.8 | 11.7 |
| 1996 | 10.6 | – |
| 1995 | 9.4 | – |
| 1994 | 9.4 | – |
| 1993 | 7.1 | – |
| 1992 | 7 | – |
| 1991 | 4 | – |
| 1990 | 5.8 | – |
- Estimate
- Highly uncertain
Each country on its own
Good to know
- The part of everything the government spends that goes on its armed forces and defence, by SIPRI’s count.
- Source: Information from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Military Expenditure Database, https://doi.org/10.55163/CQGC9685.
- Marked points are SIPRI’s own: a dot where it gives the figure as its estimate, a ring where it calls the figure highly uncertain.
- Ranks count the 150 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time
Algeria vs Libya
Health
- Life expectancyAlgeria: 76.3 years in 2023Libya: 69.3 years in 2023
- Child mortalityAlgeria: 2.2 per 100 live births in 2024Libya: 1 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityAlgeria: 17.8 per 1,000 live births in 2023Libya: 16 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionAlgeria: 3.66% in 2017Libya: 3.81% in 2017
- Suicide rateAlgeria: 4.1 per 100,000 people in 2017Libya: 8.1 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationAlgeria: 46.2 million people in 2023Libya: 7.31 million people in 2023
- Population growthAlgeria: 1.44% a year in 2023Libya: 1.01% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateAlgeria: 2.77 births per woman in 2023Libya: 2.36 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationAlgeria: 75.8% in 2025Libya: 87.9% in 2025
- Median ageAlgeria: 28.2 years in 2023Libya: 27.2 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overAlgeria: 6.4% in 2023Libya: 4.9% in 2023
- Net migration rateAlgeria: -0.6 per 1,000 people in 2023Libya: -0.3 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingAlgeria: 8.83% of GDP in 2025Libya: 3.57% of GDP in 2023
- Military spending in US dollarsAlgeria: $24.1B in 2025Libya: $1.6B in 2023
- Military spending per personAlgeria: $540 in 2025Libya: $216 in 2023
- Armed forces personnelAlgeria: 326,000 people in 2020Libya: 0 people in 2020
- National powerAlgeria: 0.51% of world capability in 2022Libya: 0.08% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersAlgeria: 2.81% of the labour force in 2020Libya: 0% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsAlgeria: 108 million TIV in 2025Libya: 5 million TIV in 2024
- Arms exportsAlgeria: 12 million TIV in 1984Libya: 0 TIV in 2016