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
What the numbers say
- The highest was $540 in 2025, the lowest $22 in 1991.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Algeria |
|---|---|
| 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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Algeria in numbers
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- Military spending8.83% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$24.1B 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