Algeria
Military share of state spending in Algeria
Military share of state spending in Algeria: 5.8% of government spending in 1990 and 24.6% of government spending in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 24.6% of government spending
- Since 1990
- +18.8 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 2 of 150
- counting from the highest
% of government spending · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 24.6% of government spending in 2025, the lowest 4% of government spending in 1991.
Every year
% of government spending · SIPRI
| Year | Algeria |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 24.6 |
| 2024 | 22 |
| 2023 | 19.7 |
| 2022 | 12.4 |
| 2021 | 15 |
| 2020 | 15.7 |
| 2019 | 14.4 |
| 2018 | 13.6 |
| 2017 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 15.2 |
| 2015 | 13.6 |
| 2014 | 13.4 |
| 2013 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 10.3 |
| 2011 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 9.1 |
| 2009 | 8.8 |
| 2008 | 7.7 |
| 2007 | 8.4 |
| 2006 | 9 |
| 2005 | 9.8 |
| 2004 | 11.3 |
| 2003 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 10.5 |
| 2001 | 12.1 |
| 2000 | 12 |
| 1999 | 11.7 |
| 1998 | 12.7 |
| 1997 | 11.8 |
| 1996 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 9.4 |
| 1994 | 9.4 |
| 1993 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 7 |
| 1991 | 4 |
| 1990 | 5.8 |
- Estimate
- Highly uncertain
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.
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- Military spending8.83% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$24.1B in 2025
- Military spending per person$540 in 2025
- Armed forces personnel326,000 people in 2020
- National power0.51% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers2.81% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports108 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports12 million TIV in 1984