Algeria vs Syria
Algeria vs Syria: Military spending
Military spending: 8.83% of GDP in Algeria in 2025 and 4.06% of GDP in Syria in 2010, by SIPRI estimates. In 2010 the value was higher in Syria, by 0.87 percentage points, or 1.27 times that in Algeria.
% of GDP · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Syria has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1964.
Every year
% of GDP · SIPRI
| Year | Algeria | Syria |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8.83 | – |
| 2024 | 7.97 | – |
| 2023 | 7.39 | – |
| 2022 | 4.06 | – |
| 2021 | 4.89 | – |
| 2020 | 5.89 | – |
| 2019 | 5.33 | – |
| 2018 | 4.93 | – |
| 2017 | 5.31 | – |
| 2016 | 5.65 | – |
| 2015 | 5.55 | – |
| 2014 | 4.97 | – |
| 2013 | 4.42 | – |
| 2012 | 4.11 | – |
| 2011 | 3.96 | – |
| 2010 | 3.19 | 4.06 |
| 2009 | 3.51 | 4.03 |
| 2008 | 2.87 | 3.55 |
| 2007 | 2.77 | 4.1 |
| 2006 | 2.51 | 4.39 |
| 2005 | 2.73 | 5.03 |
| 2004 | 3.05 | 5.54 |
| 2003 | 3 | 6.25 |
| 2002 | 3.42 | 5.41 |
| 2001 | 3.52 | 5.48 |
| 2000 | 3.43 | 5.45 |
| 1999 | 3.76 | 5.81 |
| 1998 | 3.97 | 5.81 |
| 1997 | 3.64 | 5.88 |
| 1996 | 3.09 | 6.04 |
| 1995 | 2.94 | 6.95 |
| 1994 | 3.15 | 7.36 |
| 1993 | 2.51 | 7.24 |
| 1992 | 2.14 | 8.99 |
| 1991 | 1.21 | 10.43 |
| 1990 | 1.46 | 6.87 |
| 1989 | 1.54 | 7.97 |
| 1988 | 1.75 | 7.85 |
| 1987 | 1.86 | 11.22 |
| 1986 | 1.79 | 14.45 |
| 1985 | 1.64 | 16.56 |
| 1984 | 1.76 | 17.69 |
| 1983 | 1.95 | 14.64 |
| 1982 | 2.06 | 15.56 |
| 1981 | 1.82 | 14.55 |
| 1980 | 2.1 | 17.25 |
| 1979 | 2.14 | 15.93 |
| 1978 | 2.38 | 14.71 |
| 1977 | 2.24 | 14.5 |
| 1976 | 2.7 | 14.73 |
| 1975 | 2.13 | 15.95 |
| 1974 | 1.96 | 12.66 |
| 1973 | 1.69 | 15.07 |
| 1972 | 1.8 | 10.77 |
| 1971 | 2.09 | 8.44 |
| 1970 | 2.13 | 11.22 |
| 1969 | 2.39 | 10.83 |
| 1968 | 2.62 | 12.16 |
| 1967 | 3.02 | 8.21 |
| 1966 | 3.51 | 7.75 |
| 1965 | 3.42 | 8.88 |
| 1964 | 3.5 | 8.64 |
| 1963 | 2.51 | – |
| 1962 | – | 13.47 |
| 1961 | – | 9.55 |
| 1960 | – | 10.52 |
- Estimate
- Highly uncertain
Each country on its own
Good to know
- What the country spends on its armed forces and defence, as a share of its economy, 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 151 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 Syria
Health
- Life expectancyAlgeria: 76.3 years in 2023Syria: 72.1 years in 2023
- Child mortalityAlgeria: 2.2 per 100 live births in 2024Syria: 1.8 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityAlgeria: 17.8 per 1,000 live births in 2023Syria: 16.7 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionAlgeria: 3.66% in 2017Syria: 3.58% in 2017
- Suicide rateAlgeria: 4.1 per 100,000 people in 2017Syria: 3.1 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationAlgeria: 46.2 million people in 2023Syria: 23.6 million people in 2023
- Population growthAlgeria: 1.44% a year in 2023Syria: 4.92% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateAlgeria: 2.77 births per woman in 2023Syria: 2.71 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationAlgeria: 75.8% in 2025Syria: 72.1% in 2025
- Median ageAlgeria: 28.2 years in 2023Syria: 22.3 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overAlgeria: 6.4% in 2023Syria: 4.7% in 2023
- Net migration rateAlgeria: -0.6 per 1,000 people in 2023Syria: 32.1 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending per personAlgeria: $540 in 2025Syria: $110 in 2011
- Military share of state spendingAlgeria: 24.6% of government spending in 2025Syria: 13.6% of government spending in 2010
- Armed forces personnelAlgeria: 326,000 people in 2020Syria: 269,000 people in 2020
- National powerAlgeria: 0.51% of world capability in 2022Syria: 0.29% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersAlgeria: 2.81% of the labour force in 2020Syria: 5.44% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsAlgeria: 108 million TIV in 2025Syria: 2 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exportsAlgeria: 12 million TIV in 1984Syria: 30 million TIV in 2010