Algeria vs Yemen
Algeria vs Yemen: Military spending per person
Military spending per person: $540 in Algeria in 2025 and $58 in Yemen in 2014, by SIPRI estimates. In 2014 the value was higher in Algeria, by $248, or 5.31 times that in Yemen.
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Algeria has been higher since 1996, when it overtook Yemen.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Algeria | Yemen |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $540 | – |
| 2024 | $469 | – |
| 2023 | $399 | – |
| 2022 | $203 | – |
| 2021 | $205 | – |
| 2020 | $222 | – |
| 2019 | $240 | – |
| 2018 | $228 | – |
| 2017 | $244 | – |
| 2016 | $253 | – |
| 2015 | $263 | – |
| 2014 | $306 | $58 |
| 2013 | $267 | $57 |
| 2012 | $250 | $58 |
| 2011 | $237 | $59 |
| 2010 | $158 | $55 |
| 2009 | $150 | $56 |
| 2008 | $150 | $48 |
| 2007 | $116 | $44 |
| 2006 | $93 | $36 |
| 2005 | $89 | $36 |
| 2004 | $87 | $34 |
| 2003 | $69 | $38 |
| 2002 | $67 | $36 |
| 2001 | $67 | $27 |
| 2000 | $61 | $25 |
| 1999 | $60 | $21 |
| 1998 | $64 | $21 |
| 1997 | $60 | $23 |
| 1996 | $51 | $24 |
| 1995 | $44 | $49 |
| 1994 | $48 | $148 |
| 1993 | $47 | $101 |
| 1992 | $40 | $89 |
| 1991 | $22 | $73 |
| 1990 | $36 | $59 |
| 1989 | $35 | – |
| 1988 | $43 | – |
- Estimate
- Highly uncertain
Each country on its own
Good to know
- What the country spends on its armed forces and defence for each person living there, in US dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation.
- 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 Yemen
Health
- Life expectancyAlgeria: 76.3 years in 2023Yemen: 69.3 years in 2023
- Child mortalityAlgeria: 2.2 per 100 live births in 2024Yemen: 3.8 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityAlgeria: 17.8 per 1,000 live births in 2023Yemen: 32.3 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionAlgeria: 3.66% in 2017Yemen: 4.01% in 2017
- Suicide rateAlgeria: 4.1 per 100,000 people in 2017Yemen: 6 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationAlgeria: 46.2 million people in 2023Yemen: 39.4 million people in 2023
- Population growthAlgeria: 1.44% a year in 2023Yemen: 3.03% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateAlgeria: 2.77 births per woman in 2023Yemen: 4.59 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationAlgeria: 75.8% in 2025Yemen: 37% in 2025
- Median ageAlgeria: 28.2 years in 2023Yemen: 18.2 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overAlgeria: 6.4% in 2023Yemen: 2.5% in 2023
- Net migration rateAlgeria: -0.6 per 1,000 people in 2023Yemen: -0.1 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingAlgeria: 8.83% of GDP in 2025Yemen: 3.97% of GDP in 2014
- Military spending in US dollarsAlgeria: $24.1B in 2025Yemen: $12.3B in 2014
- Military share of state spendingAlgeria: 24.6% of government spending in 2025Yemen: 14.3% of government spending in 2014
- Armed forces personnelAlgeria: 326,000 people in 2020Yemen: 40,000 people in 2020
- National powerAlgeria: 0.51% of world capability in 2022Yemen: 0.24% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersAlgeria: 2.81% of the labour force in 2020Yemen: 0.58% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsAlgeria: 108 million TIV in 2025Yemen: 1 million TIV in 2022
- Arms exportsAlgeria: 12 million TIV in 1984Yemen: 51 million TIV in 1986