Country comparison: Algeria / Egypt

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Algeria and Egypt. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Algeria	Egypt
Region:	Northern Africa	Northern Africa
Area:	2,381,740 km²	1,001,450 km²
National language:	Arabic	Arabic
Government form:	Presidential republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	1962 AD	1922 AD
Capital:	Algiers	Cairo

Population

Details for Algeria and Egypt

	Algeria	Egypt
Population:	44,178,000	109,262,000
Inhabitants/km²:	18.5	109.1
Life expectancy males:	Ø 73 years	Ø 69 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 76 years	Ø 73 years
Average age:	Ø 28.9 years	Ø 24.1 years
Birth rate:	22.43 ‰	23.05 ‰
Death rate:	5.40 ‰	5.85 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.81 ‰	-0.29 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Algeria	Egypt
Political stability:	39	39
Civil rights:	24	27
Health:	56	41
Climate:	76	66
Cost of Living:	53	59
Popularity:	36	44

Economy

Details for Algeria and Egypt

	Algeria	Egypt
Currency:	Algerian dinar (1 DZD = 100 Centimes)	Egypt pound (1 EGP =100 Piasters)
Unemployment rate:	11.6 %	7.0 %
Inflation rate:	9.27 %	13.90 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	28.78 %	23.66 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	66.10 %	44.40 %
Average income:	3,660 US$	3,350 US$
Corruption index:	67 (bad)	70 (very bad)

	DZA: total	per 1000 inh.	EGY: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	163,044 M US$	3.69 M US$	404,143 M US$	3.70 M US$
Gross national product:	161,495 M US$	3.66 M US$	365,800 M US$	3.35 M US$
Exported goods:	41,776 M US$	0.95 M US$	58,339 M US$	0.53 M US$
Imported goods:	44,322 M US$	1.00 M US$	94,039 M US$	0.86 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Algeria and Egypt

	DZA: total	per 1000 inh.	EGY: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	104,000 km	2.35 km	65,050 km	0.60 km
Railways:	4,020 km	0.09 km	5,085 km	0.05 km
Harbours:	114	0.0026	421	0.0039
Passenger airports:	28	0.0006	12	0.0001

Energy balance

Details for Algeria and Egypt

	DZA: total	per 1000 inh.	EGY: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	190.04 bn kWh	4.30 m kWh	524.08 bn kWh	4.80 m kWh
Energy consumption:	66.65 bn kWh	1.51 m kWh	149.08 bn kWh	1.36 m kWh
Energy production:	76.69 bn kWh	1.74 m kWh	182.99 bn kWh	1.67 m kWh
Energy export:	673.00 m kWh	15,233.84 kWh	360.00 m kWh	3,294.83 kWh
Energy imports:	531.00 m kWh	12,019.57 kWh	74.00 m kWh	677.27 kWh
CO2 emissions:	171.25 m t	3,876.37 t	249.37 m t	2,282.31 t

Telecommunication

Details for Algeria and Egypt

	Algeria	Egypt
International dialing:	+213	+20
Internet domain:	.dz	.eg

	DZA total	DZA per 1000 inh.	EGY total	EGY per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	5,097,059	115	11,030,900	101
Mobile cellulars:	47,028,685	1065	103,449,734	947
Internet server:	676	0	200,430	2
Internet users:	27,787,943	629	78,575,022	719
Broadband Internet:	4,177,035	95	10,835,865	99

Healthcare system

Details for Algeria and Egypt

	Algeria	Egypt
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	1.90	1.43
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.83	0.79
Diabetes:	6.7 %	17.2 %
HIV:	0.07 %	0.06 %
Tuberculosis:	0.54 ‰	0.10 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	89.0 %	89.0 %
Smokers:	21.0 %	24.3 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Algeria and Egypt

	Algeria	Egypt
Daytime temperatures:	26.5 °C	30.0 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	13.9 °C	18.0 °C
Water temperature:	18.6 °C	21.8 °C
Rel. humidity:	56 %	48 %
Rain days:	3.3	0.7
Sunshine hours per day:	8.5	9.5

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
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Native languages

	Algeria	Egypt
Arabic:	86.0 %	98.8 %
Berberi:	14.0 %	n/a
Nubian:	n/a	0.7 %
Domari:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	0.0 %	0.3 %

Religions

	Algeria	Egypt
State religion:	Sunni Islam	Sunni Islam
Islam:	99.0 %	90.0 %
Christianity:	n/a	9.7 %
other:	1.0 %	0.3 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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