Algeria

Military spending per person in Algeria

Military spending per person in Algeria: $43 in 1988 and $540 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.

Latest, 2025
$540
Since 1988
+$496
Rank, 2025
41 of 151
counting from the highest

US dollars per person · SIPRI

Military spending per person in AlgeriaMilitary spending per person in Algeria: $43 in 1988 and $540 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $540 in 2025, the lowest $22 in 1991.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimateHighly uncertain

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $540 in 2025, the lowest $22 in 1991.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearAlgeria
2025$540
2024$469
2023$399
2022$203
2021$205
2020$222
2019$240
2018$228
2017$244
2016$253
2015$263
2014$306
2013$267
2012$250
2011$237
2010$158
2009$150
2008$150
2007$116
2006$93
2005$89
2004$87
2003$69
2002$67
2001$67
2000$61
1999$60
1998$64
1997$60
1996$51
1995$44
1994$48
1993$47
1992$40
1991$22
1990$36
1989$35
1988$43
  • Estimate
  • Highly uncertain

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.

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