Algeria — Market Overview
🇩🇿 Algeria
Algeria is best understood through energy revenues first and domestic policy transmission second, because oil and gas receipts still drive the country's external balances, budget flexibility, and local liquidity conditions. The cleanest read usually comes from hydrocarbon pricing, import capacity and domestic demand, and whether public-sector spending is broad enough to support the non-energy economy.
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Por qué importa este mercado
This first pass is built as a reusable country page instead of a static essay. The page now combines a stylized country map, a switchable line-chart explorer, and linked peer countries so users can move from Algeria into the rest of the region without losing the macro frame.
Explorador macro
Cambia de variable sin perder el contexto del país
GDP, inflation, labor, policy, and industrial activity are shown on a quarterly path from 2000 onward, while debt and the local equity benchmark come in when usable history exists. This keeps the page focused on fiscal room and macro regime while the broader official country pipeline keeps expanding.
Real GDP growth
Algeria starter GDP-growth path anchored to sourced country profile readings; full official historical wiring is still pending.
Variables disponibles
Comercio y posición externa
Exportaciones, servicios y balanza externa
En lugar de un muro genérico de tarjetas macro, esta sección se centra en cómo el país capta demanda del exterior, dónde está su ventaja comercial y cómo evoluciona la balanza externa.
The full export figure, combining goods and services in one line. It is the cleanest way to read how much external demand Algeria is capturing across both physical products and higher-value intangible flows.
This is the merchandise side of exports: industrial supplies, capital goods, autos, food, and other physical products. It matters because it reflects the health of manufacturing, energy, aerospace, and the broader global industrial cycle.
This is the intangible side: finance, travel, licensing, business services, and IP-linked flows. It matters because it shows where Algeria is strongest in higher-margin, knowledge-intensive, and branded service activities.
Socios comerciales
Dónde comercia el país
Enfoque en materias primas
Exposición a materias primas
Trade in goods and services equaled 40.1% of GDP in 2024. This is a quick read on how externally exposed the economy is.
Services represented 7.9% of total exports in the latest reading, which helps show whether the export mix leans more toward intangibles or merchandise.
Manufactures accounted for 2.7% of merchandise exports in 2017.
Fuel exports accounted for 96.1% of merchandise exports in 2017, useful for reading commodity exposure.
Food exports accounted for 1.0% of merchandise exports in 2017, adding context on agricultural exposure.
Fuente: World Bank API: totalExports,
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Marco de lectura
oil and gas revenues
Algeria should first be read through oil and gas revenues. When this regime shifts, local multiples and sector leadership usually shift with it.
state spending
The cleanest read usually comes from hydrocarbon pricing, import capacity and domestic demand, and whether public-sector spending is broad enough to support the non-energy economy. That makes state spending one of the most important signals for revising the country narrative.
domestic demand support
The final layer is domestic demand support, because it determines whether the macro backdrop turns into sustainable earnings support for the Algiers Market Index.
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Real GDP growth
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GDP growth is published quarterly and annualized, so each point captures how fast real output was expanding or contracting versus the prior quarter at an annual rate. It matters because it is the broadest scorecard of domestic economic momentum and sets the backdrop for revenues, employment, and policy expectations. Versus a year ago, the series is higher by 2.7%, which points to an improving or firmer backdrop on this measure. Across the displayed window, the broader trend is still upward.