Algeria vs Mauritania
Algeria vs Mauritania: Arms imports
Arms imports: 108 million TIV in Algeria in 2025 and 126 million TIV in Mauritania in 2024, by SIPRI estimates. In 2024 the value was higher in Algeria, by 79 million TIV, or 1.63 times that in Mauritania.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Algeria has been higher since 1971, when it overtook Mauritania.
- The world as a whole: 30.6 billion TIV in 2024.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Algeria | Mauritania | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108 million | – | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | 205 million | 126 million | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | 394 million | 2 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 450 million | – | 33 billion |
| 2021 | 164 million | 6 million | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | 601 million | – | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | 167 million | 34 million | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | 1.28 billion | 1 million | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | 1.16 billion | – | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | 2.92 billion | 35 million | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | 897 million | 1 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 715 million | 8 million | 27 billion |
| 2013 | 361 million | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 662 million | 11 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 1.13 billion | 5 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 831 million | 17 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 1.08 billion | – | 24 billion |
| 2008 | 1.52 billion | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 507 million | – | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 340 million | – | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | 159 million | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | 251 million | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 204 million | 7 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 252 million | 27 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 539 million | – | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | 405 million | 31 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 388 million | – | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | 98 million | 4 million | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 37 million | 8 million | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 83 million | 3 million | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 312 million | 3 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 197 million | 16 million | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | 22 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 23 million | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 1.04 billion | 18 million | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | 737 million | 16 million | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | 455 million | 8 million | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 319 million | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | 384 million | – | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | 163 million | – | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 368 million | 3 million | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 660 million | 0 | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 700 million | – | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | 1.35 billion | 16 million | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | 1.38 billion | 19 million | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 1.34 billion | – | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | 1.82 billion | 24 million | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | 1.27 billion | 17 million | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | 1.05 billion | 29 million | 37 billion |
| 1976 | 130 million | 15 million | 33 billion |
| 1975 | 56 million | 5 million | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | 13 million | 5 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | 110 million | 1 million | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | 180 million | – | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 14 million | 13 million | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | 14 million | 21 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | 79 million | – | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | 58 million | – | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | 525 million | – | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | 439 million | – | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | 354 million | 1 million | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | 181 million | 1 million | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | 90 million | 6 million | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | 63 million | 1 million | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | 7 million | 1 million | 15 billion |
| 1960 | – | 2 million | 15.7 billion |
Each country on its own
Good to know
- Major weapons the country received, in SIPRI trend-indicator values (TIV): what the arms are worth as military capability, priced by their production cost, not what was paid.
- Source: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, via the World Bank.
- Ranks count the 110 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
- The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time
Algeria vs Mauritania
Health
- Life expectancyAlgeria: 76.3 years in 2023Mauritania: 68.5 years in 2023
- Child mortalityAlgeria: 2.2 per 100 live births in 2024Mauritania: 3.7 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityAlgeria: 17.8 per 1,000 live births in 2023Mauritania: 30.8 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionAlgeria: 3.66% in 2017Mauritania: 3.09% in 2017
- Suicide rateAlgeria: 4.1 per 100,000 people in 2017Mauritania: 6.6 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationAlgeria: 46.2 million people in 2023Mauritania: 5.02 million people in 2023
- Population growthAlgeria: 1.44% a year in 2023Mauritania: 2.95% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateAlgeria: 2.77 births per woman in 2023Mauritania: 4.7 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationAlgeria: 75.8% in 2025Mauritania: 61.5% in 2025
- Median ageAlgeria: 28.2 years in 2023Mauritania: 17.1 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overAlgeria: 6.4% in 2023Mauritania: 3.2% in 2023
- Net migration rateAlgeria: -0.6 per 1,000 people in 2023Mauritania: 0.6 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingAlgeria: 8.83% of GDP in 2025Mauritania: 2.75% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsAlgeria: $24.1B in 2025Mauritania: $315M in 2025
- Military spending per personAlgeria: $540 in 2025Mauritania: $61 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingAlgeria: 24.6% of government spending in 2025Mauritania: 10.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelAlgeria: 326,000 people in 2020Mauritania: 21,000 people in 2020
- National powerAlgeria: 0.51% of world capability in 2022Mauritania: 0.03% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersAlgeria: 2.81% of the labour force in 2020Mauritania: 2% of the labour force in 2020