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Algeria vs Pakistan
How Algeria and Pakistan compare on 39 measures, from 1820 to 2025. The main differences:
- Life expectancy · In 2023, Algeria was higher: 76.3 years against 67.7 years
- GDP per person · In 2025, Algeria was higher: $4,883 against $1,669
- Population · In 2023, Pakistan was higher: 248 million people against 46.2 million people
- Military spending · In 2025, Algeria was higher: 8.83% of GDP against 2.91% of GDP
- CO₂ per person · In 2024, Algeria was higher: 3.98 tonnes against 0.81 tonnes
Life expectancy →AlgeriaPakistanUN projection (medium variant)95% prediction intervalWorld
Change since 1990, years · UN
Every measure
AlgeriaPakistan
| Measure | Algeria | Pakistan | Over the years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | |||
| Life expectancyyears · 2023 | 76.3 | 67.7 | |
| Child mortalitydeaths before age 5 per 100 live births · 2024 | 2.2 | 5.6 | |
| Infant mortalitydeaths per 1,000 live births · 2023 | 17.8 | 49.4 | |
| Safe drinking water% of people · 2022 | 70.6 | 50.6 | |
| Depression% of people · 2017 | 3.66 | 3.33 | |
| Suicide ratedeaths per 100,000 people · 2017 | 4.1 | 4.4 | |
| People | |||
| Populationpeople · 2023 | 46.2 million | 248 million | |
| Population growth% a year · 2023 | 1.44 | 1.48 | |
| Fertility ratebirths per woman · 2023 | 2.77 | 3.61 | |
| Urban population% of people · 2025 | 75.8 | 39.5 | |
| Median ageyears · 2023 | 28.2 | 20.3 | |
| People aged 65 and over% of people · 2023 | 6.4 | 4.2 | |
| Net migration rateper 1,000 people · 2023 | -0.6 | -6.5 | |
| Economy | |||
| GDP per personUS dollars at 2015 prices · 2025 | $4,883 | $1,669 | |
| GDP growth% a year · 2024 | 3.7 | 2.6 | |
| Inflation% a year · 2025 | 1.4 | 4.5 | |
| Government debt% of GDP · 2025 | 52.1 | 72.8 | |
| Education | |||
| Learning-adjusted schoolingyears · 2020 | 7.1 | 5.1 | |
| Adult literacy% of adults · 2021 | 75.12008 | 58.9 | |
| Girls in primary school% of girls of primary-school age · 2018 | 95.52008 | 61.6 | |
| Politics | |||
| Electoral democracyindex, 0 to 1 · 2025 | 0.27 | 0.3 | |
| Human rightsindex, 0 to 1 · 2025 | 0.42 | 0.47 | |
| Conflict | |||
| Deaths in conflictsdeaths a year · 2022 | 10 | 738 | |
| Military | |||
| Military spending% of GDP · 2025 | 8.83 | 2.91 | |
| Military spending in US dollarsUS dollars at 2024 prices · 2025 | $24.1B | $11.5B | |
| Military spending per personUS dollars per person · 2025 | $540 | $47 | |
| Military share of state spending% of government spending · 2025 | 24.6 | 13.8 | |
| Armed forces personnelpeople · 2020 | 326,000 | 943,000 | |
| National power% of world capability · 2022 | 0.51 | 1.77 | |
| Armed forces, share of workers% of the labour force · 2020 | 2.81 | 1.25 | |
| Arms importsSIPRI trend-indicator values · 2025 | 108 million | 706 million | |
| Arms exportsSIPRI trend-indicator values · 2025 | 12 million1984 | 127 million | |
| Climate | |||
| Temperature°C · 2025 | 24.8 | 21.6 | |
| Days above 35 °Cdays a year · 2014 | 133.9 | 118.6 | |
| Tropical nightsnights a year · 2014 | 147.8 | 149.9 | |
| Technology and environment | |||
| CO₂ per persontonnes per person · 2024 | 3.98 | 0.81 | |
| Internet users% of people · 2024 | 77.4 | 57.3 | |
| Access to electricity% of people · 2024 | 100 | 95.7 | |
| Forest area% of land · 2024 | 0.7 | 4.1 | |
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Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
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