Social Protection & Labor · Algeria
Yearly data from 1975 to 2017, from the World Bank.
Algeria's unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (national estimate) was 11.71% in 2017, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 2.08 percentage points from 13.79% in 2007.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 11.71% | 2017 |
| Five years earlier | 10.97% | 2012 |
| Ten years earlier | 13.79% | 2007 |
| Highest | 38.42% | 1975 |
| Lowest | 9.83% | 2013 |
| Average since 2008 | 10.59% | 2008–2017 |
| First recorded | 38.42% | 1975 |
Over five years it is up 0.74 percentage points from 10.97% in 2012. Since 1975 it is down 26.71 percentage points from 38.42% in 1975. The World Bank has no value for 14 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
In 2017, Algeria's unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (national estimate) rose 1.51 percentage points on 2016 (from 10.2% to 11.71%).
Across the 22 yearly changes before that (1990 to 2016), the average change was −0.21 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.76 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.6 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 7.44 percentage points in 1995 and the biggest yearly fall was 6.07 percentage points in 2004. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2008 to 2017 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 9% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
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| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 11.71% | 2017 |
| World | 5.08% | 2022 |
| Upper middle income | 5.37% | 2022 |
Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment. Definitions of labor force and unemployment differ by country.
Limitations: The criteria for people considered to be seeking work, and the treatment of people temporarily laid off or seeking work for the first time, vary across countries. In many cases it is especially difficult to measure employment and unemployment in agriculture. The timing of a survey can maximize the effects of seasonal unemployment in agriculture. And informal sector employment is difficult to quantify where informal activities are not tracked.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
| Year | Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (national estimate) |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 11.71 |
| 2016 | 10.2 |
| 2015 | 11.21 |
| 2014 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 9.83 |
| 2012 | 10.97 |
| 2011 | 9.96 |
| 2010 | 9.96 |
| 2009 | 10.16 |
| 2008 | 11.33 |
| 2007 | 13.79 |
| 2006 | 12.27 |
| 2005 | 15.27 |
| 2004 | 17.65 |
| 2003 | 23.72 |
| 2002 | 25.9 |
| 2001 | 27.3 |
| 2000 | 29.77 |
| 1999 | no data |
| 1998 | no data |
| 1997 | 25.43 |
| 1996 | no data |
| 1995 | 31.84 |
| 1994 | 24.4 |
| 1993 | 23.2 |
| 1992 | 23 |
| 1991 | 20.6 |
| 1990 | 21.26 |
| 1989 | 16.9 |
| 1988 | no data |
| 1987 | no data |
| 1986 | no data |
| 1985 | no data |
| 1984 | 12.36 |
| 1983 | no data |
| 1982 | no data |
| 1981 | no data |
| 1980 | 15.25 |
| 1979 | no data |
| 1978 | no data |
| 1977 | no data |
| 1976 | no data |
| 1975 | 38.42 |
Every indicator for Algeria is on the Algeria data page.
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SL.UEM.TOTL.NE.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Labour Force Statistics database (LFS), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: September 28, 2026 Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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