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Economic indicators

	2015	2020	2025
GDP: Gross domestic product (million current US$)	165 979	158 975	247 626^b
GDP growth rate (annual %, const. 2015 prices)	3.7	-0.9	4.1^b
GDP per capita (current US$)	4 147.0	3 610.0	5 364.0^b
Economy: Agriculture (% of Gross Value Added)	12.1	13.5	13.6^b
Economy: Industry (% of Gross Value Added)	37.3	34.1	39.1^b
Economy: Services and other activity (% of GVA)	50.6	52.4	47.3^b
Employment in agriculture^f (% of employed)	8.8	9.9	9.3^b
Employment in industry^f (% of employed)	31.3	30.7	30.8^b
Employment in services^f (% employed)	59.9	59.4	59.9^b
Unemployment (% of labour force)	11.2	14.1^f	11.2^f
Labour force participation rate^f (female/male pop. %)	15.3 / 68.4	13.7 / 64.3	13.8 / 65.9
CPI: Consumer Price Index^g (2010=100)	127	155^h	207^h,e
Agricultural production index (2014-2016=100)	101	115	116^b
International trade: exports (million current US$)	34 796	21 925^f	51 442^f,e
International trade: imports (million current US$)	51 803	37 412^f	47 539^f,e
International trade: balance (million current US$)	- 17 007	- 15 486^f	3 903^f,e
Balance of payments, current account (million US$)	- 27 038	- 18 187	6 359^b

Social indicators

	2015	2020	2025
Population growth rate (average annual %)	2	1.6	1.3^a
Urban population (% of total population)	70.8	73.2^d	...
Urban population growth rate (average annual %)	2.9ⁱ	...	...
Fertility rate, total (live births per woman)	3.1	2.9	2.7^a
Life expectancy at birth (females/males, years)	76.4 / 74.0	74.9 / 71.7	78.1 / 75.3^a
Population age distribution^j (0-14/60+ years old, %)	29.0 / 8.1	30.8 / 9.0	29.9 / 10.4^a
International migrant stock^k (000/% of total pop.)	239.5 / 0.6	250.4 / 0.6	259.5 / 0.6^e
Refugees and others of concern to UNHCR (000)	100	99.2	187^l,e
Under five mortality rate (per 1000 live births)	25.3	22.8	19.7^a
Health: Current expenditure^m,n (% of GDP)	6.3	5.6	3.6^o
Health: Physicians (per 1 000 pop.)	...	1^d	1.7^o
Education: Primary gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	107.2 / 111.9	106.9 / 110.1	103.0 / 104.8^e
Education: Lowr. sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	131.3 / 139.4^p	... / ...	114.3 / 122.8^e
Education: Upr. Sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	77.7 / 53.9^p	... / ...	87.8 / 61.3^e
Intentional homicide rate (per 100 000 pop.)	1.4	1.5	1.2^b
Seats held by women in national parliaments (%)	31.6	25.8^q	7.9^q

Environment and infrastructure indicators

	2015	2020	2025
Individuals using the Internet^f (per 100 inhabitants)	38.2	63.5^r	76.9^b
Research & Development expenditure (% of GDP)	...	0.5^s,t	...
Threatened species (number)	114	155	192^e
Forested area (% of land area)	0.8	0.8	0.8^o
CO2 emission estimates (million tons/tons per capita)	126.1 / 3.2	133.9 / 3.0	155.2 / 3.4^o
Energy production, primary (Petajoules)	5 883	5 458	6 293^o
Energy supply per capita (Gigajoules)	56	54	60^o
Tourist/visitor arrivals at national borders^u (000)	1 710	591	1 398^o
Important sites for terrestrial biodiversity protected (%)	42.4	43.5	43.5^e
Pop. using safely managed drinking water (urban/rural, %)	81.5 / 65.9	74.5 / 65.8	73.1 / 63.1^o
Pop. using safely managed sanitation (urban/rural, %)	65.8 / 54.1	64.8 / 55.7	64.6 / 56.0^o
Net Official Development Assist. received (% of GNI)	0.04	0.13	0.09^b

Footnotes

a		Projected est. (medium fertility variant).
b		2023
c		Refers to the Governorate of Grand Algiers.
d		2019
e		2024
f		Estimate.
g		Algiers
h		Calculated by the UN Statistics Division from national indices.
i		Data refers to a 5-year period preceding the reference year.
j		Calculated by the UN Statistics Division.
k		Including refugees.
l		Based on a study in 2018, the government estimates 173,600 people live in the camps. UN agencies use different points of reference for the population living in the camps. See https://algeria.un.org/sites/default/files/2024-01/SRRP%20-%20English.pdf.
m		Est. should be viewed with caution as these are derived from scarce data.
n		Based on calendar year (January 1 to December 31).
o		2022
p		2011
q		Data at 1 January of the reporting year.
r		Population aged 15 years and over.
s		Break in the time series.
t		2017
u		Including nationals residing abroad.