Algeria
Military spending in US dollars in Algeria
Military spending in US dollars in Algeria: $293M in 1969 and $24.1B in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $24.1B
- Since 1969
- +$23.8B
- Rank, 2025
- 20 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $24.1B in 2025, the lowest $260M in 1972.
Every year
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
| Year | Algeria |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $24.1B |
| 2024 | $21.8B |
| 2023 | $19.3B |
| 2022 | $11B |
| 2021 | $11.4B |
| 2020 | $12.2B |
| 2019 | $12.5B |
| 2018 | $11.6B |
| 2017 | $12.1B |
| 2016 | $12.8B |
| 2015 | $12.7B |
| 2014 | $12.2B |
| 2013 | $10.6B |
| 2012 | $9.78B |
| 2011 | $9.3B |
| 2010 | $6.5B |
| 2009 | $6.14B |
| 2008 | $5.65B |
| 2007 | $4.85B |
| 2006 | $4.13B |
| 2005 | $4.03B |
| 2004 | $3.85B |
| 2003 | $3.39B |
| 2002 | $3.46B |
| 2001 | $3.39B |
| 2000 | $3.1B |
| 1999 | $2.67B |
| 1998 | $2.53B |
| 1997 | $2.39B |
| 1996 | $1.98B |
| 1995 | $1.74B |
| 1994 | $1.8B |
| 1993 | $1.48B |
| 1992 | $1.38B |
| 1991 | $822M |
| 1990 | $803M |
| 1989 | $752M |
| 1988 | $769M |
| 1987 | $777M |
| 1986 | $762M |
| 1985 | $775M |
| 1984 | $827M |
| 1983 | $880M |
| 1982 | $876M |
| 1981 | $759M |
| 1980 | $854M |
| 1979 | $751M |
| 1978 | $759M |
| 1977 | $700M |
| 1976 | $803M |
| 1975 | $576M |
| 1974 | $517M |
| 1973 | $270M |
| 1972 | $260M |
| 1971 | $269M |
| 1970 | $274M |
| 1969 | $293M |
- Estimate
- Highly uncertain
Good to know
- What the country spends on its armed forces and defence, in constant 2024 US dollars so that years compare, 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 spending8.83% of GDP 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