Algeria
Military spending in Algeria
Military spending in Algeria: 2.51% of GDP in 1963 and 8.83% of GDP in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 8.83% of GDP
- Since 1963
- +6.32 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 2 of 151
- counting from the highest
% of GDP · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 8.83% of GDP in 2025, the lowest 1.21% of GDP in 1991.
Every year
% of GDP · SIPRI
| Year | Algeria |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2009 | 3.51 |
| 2008 | 2.87 |
| 2007 | 2.77 |
| 2006 | 2.51 |
| 2005 | 2.73 |
| 2004 | 3.05 |
| 2003 | 3 |
| 2002 | 3.42 |
| 2001 | 3.52 |
| 2000 | 3.43 |
| 1999 | 3.76 |
| 1998 | 3.97 |
| 1997 | 3.64 |
| 1996 | 3.09 |
| 1995 | 2.94 |
| 1994 | 3.15 |
| 1993 | 2.51 |
| 1992 | 2.14 |
| 1991 | 1.21 |
| 1990 | 1.46 |
| 1989 | 1.54 |
| 1988 | 1.75 |
| 1987 | 1.86 |
| 1986 | 1.79 |
| 1985 | 1.64 |
| 1984 | 1.76 |
| 1983 | 1.95 |
| 1982 | 2.06 |
| 1981 | 1.82 |
| 1980 | 2.1 |
| 1979 | 2.14 |
| 1978 | 2.38 |
| 1977 | 2.24 |
| 1976 | 2.7 |
| 1975 | 2.13 |
| 1974 | 1.96 |
| 1973 | 1.69 |
| 1972 | 1.8 |
| 1971 | 2.09 |
| 1970 | 2.13 |
| 1969 | 2.39 |
| 1968 | 2.62 |
| 1967 | 3.02 |
| 1966 | 3.51 |
| 1965 | 3.42 |
| 1964 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 2.51 |
- Estimate
- Highly uncertain
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.
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- Military spending in US dollars$24.1B in 2025
- Military spending per person$540 in 2025
- Military share of state spending24.6% of government spending 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