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Unemployment rate in Algeria

How hard is it to have a job there?

Algeria's unemployment rate is 11.63 % — #111 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

11.63%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

Source: World Bank open data (GDP growth, GDP/capita, unemployment, government debt)

Unemployment rate in Algeria over time

29.77 %19.80 %9.82 %29.77 % · 20009.82 % · 20132000: 29.77 %2001: 27.30 %2002: 25.90 %2003: 23.72 %2004: 17.65 %2005: 15.27 %2006: 12.27 %2007: 13.79 %2008: 11.33 %2009: 10.16 %2010: 9.96 %2011: 9.96 %2012: 10.97 %2013: 9.82 %2014: 10.21 %2015: 11.21 %2016: 10.20 %2017: 12.00 %2018: 12.11 %2019: 12.30 %2020: 14.08 %2021: 13.66 %2022: 12.38 %2023: 11.64 %2024: 11.65 %2025: 11.63 %20002012202511.63 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#111 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
10 %
13 of 124 countries
Latest move
▼ 0.02 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
18.14 pp
peak 29.77 % in 2000
Full series
▼ 18.14 pp
since 2000

In Africa: #15 of 21vs median 5.25 %: +6.38 pp (worse)

Among 124 countries

6 of 124 countries between 0.78 % and 1.53 %6 of 124 countries between 1.53 % and 2.28 %12 of 124 countries between 2.28 % and 3.03 %16 of 124 countries between 3.03 % and 3.78 %7 of 124 countries between 3.78 % and 4.53 %15 of 124 countries between 4.53 % and 5.28 %14 of 124 countries between 5.28 % and 6.02 %7 of 124 countries between 6.02 % and 6.77 %6 of 124 countries between 6.77 % and 7.52 %2 of 124 countries between 7.52 % and 8.27 %10 of 124 countries between 8.27 % and 9.02 %3 of 124 countries between 9.02 % and 9.77 %3 of 124 countries between 9.77 % and 10.52 %2 of 124 countries between 10.52 % and 11.27 %3 of 124 countries between 11.27 % and 12.02 %1 of 124 countries between 12.02 % and 12.77 %1 of 124 countries between 12.77 % and 13.51 %2 of 124 countries between 13.51 % and 14.26 %1 of 124 countries between 14.26 % and 15.01 %2 of 124 countries between 15.01 % and 15.76 %1 of 124 countries between 16.51 % and 17.26 %4 of 124 countries between 18.01 % and 18.76 %median 5.23 %Algeria: ahead of 10 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentAlgeria 11.63 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Algeria is ahead of 10 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Algeria
109 Bosnia and Herzegovina11.04 %−0.60 pp
110 Rwanda11.36 %−0.27 pp
111 Algeria11.63 %—
112 Guyana11.96 %+0.33 pp
113 Georgia12.10 %+0.46 pp

Unemployment, share of the labour force (World Bank / ILO estimate).

How to read this figure

Share of the labour force without work but actively seeking it (World Bank / ILO harmonised estimate). People outside the labour force — students, carers, the discouraged — are not counted.

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