Algeria
Algeria in numbers
39 measures of Algeria from 1800 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending8.83% of GDP in 2025
- 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
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Algeria with…
- Algeria vs Pakistan
- Algeria vs Egypt
- Algeria vs Iran
- Algeria vs Iraq
- Algeria vs Afghanistan
- Algeria vs Yemen
- Algeria vs Morocco
- Algeria vs Saudi Arabia
- Algeria vs Niger
- Algeria vs Syria
- Algeria vs Mali
- Algeria vs Tunisia
- Algeria vs Jordan
- Algeria vs United Arab Emirates
- Algeria vs Israel
- Algeria vs Libya
- Algeria vs Mauritania
- Algeria vs Western Sahara
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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