Teachers of Arabic, brought in from other Muslim countries, spread conventional Islamic thought in schools and sowed the seeds of a return to Orthodox Islam. Housing and medicine continue to be pressing problems in Algeria. This article is about the demographic features of the population of Algeria, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. Horne estimated Algerian casualties during the span of eight years to be around 700,000. [3] Fiscal policy in 2011 remained expansionist and made it possible to maintain the pace of public investment and to contain the strong demand for jobs and housing.

Algeria is the Muslim country of North Africa. Due to the fact that the journalists and activists criticize the ruling government, some media organizations' licenses are cancelled. although later papers have suggested that this date could have been as longas ten thousand years ago, with the transition from the Oranian to the Capsian culture in North Africa. Public spending has increased by 27% annually during the past 5 years. It was based on agriculture, but extraction and production of hydrocarbons have given rise to fast industrialization in the country. Most of the population resides along the Mediterranean coast, while the Sahara and its extreme climate dominate the country. [3] It is the direct successor of the National Liberation Army (Armée de Libération Nationale or ALN), the armed wing of the nationalist National Liberation Front which fought French colonial occupation during the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). The two main branches were the Botr and Barnès tribes, who were divided into tribes, and again into sub-tribes. Finally, the staïfi music is born in Sétif and remains a unique style of its kind. The province with the lowest rate of illiteracy was Algiers Province at 11.6%, while the province with the highest rate was Djelfa Province at 35.5%.[165]. Algeria lies mostly between latitudes 19° and 37°N (a small area is north of 37°N and south of 19°N), and longitudes 9°W and 12°E. [72], In December 1991 the Islamic Salvation Front dominated the first of two rounds of legislative elections. Currently, Algeria has 20,000 research professors at various universities and over 780 research labs, with state-set goals to expand to 1,000. Most of the empires have left their legacies here like the ancient Roman ruins in seaside Tipaza. The population of Algeria in 2019 was 43,053,054, a 1.95% increase from 2018. Algerije (Arabisch: الجزائر, Al-Jazā'ir, Berbers: Lz̦ayer), officieel de Democratische Volksrepubliek Algerije, is een land in Noord-Afrika.. Algerije is qua oppervlakte het grootste land van Afrika en ligt tussen Marokko en Tunesië, en vormt samen met deze landen de Maghreb.In het zuiden grenst het van west naar oost aan de betwiste Westelijke Sahara, Mauritanië, Mali, Niger en Libië. Probably in 1048, the Zirid ruler or viceroy, el-Mu'izz, decided to end this suzerainty. [25] After the fall of the Umayyad Caliphate, numerous local dynasties emerged, including the Rustamids, Aghlabids, Fatimids, Zirids, Hammadids, Almoravids, Almohads and the Abdalwadid. Other traditional meals sold often as street food include mhadjeb or mahjouba, karantika, doubara, chakhchoukha, hassouna, and t'chicha. In addition, several football clubs have won continental and international trophies as the club ES Sétif or JS Kabylia. The University of Abou Bekr Belkaïd in Tlemcen and University of Batna Hadj Lakhdar occupy the 26th and 45th row in Africa. Ninety-one percent of the Algerian population lives around the Mediterranean coast. A negative number means that there are more emigrants than immigrants. Its capital is Algiers, which is highly populated. In January 2016 Algeria's population was an estimated 40.4 million, who are mainly Arab-Berber ethnically. They were primarily of French, Spanish and Italian origin. [34], The dey was in effect a constitutional autocrat. Algeria also has a small African leopard and Saharan cheetah population, but these are seldom seen. The report includes country-specific three-year forecasts for major macroeconomic indicators, including commodity and financial markets. [49], In the 19th century, the pirates forged affiliations with Caribbean powers, paying a "licence tax" in exchange for safe harbour of their vessels. [77], The Algerian economy grew by 2.6% in 2011, driven by public spending, in particular in the construction and public-works sector, and by growing internal demand. Chart and table of Algeria population from 1950 to 2020. The other cities which are highly populated are Oran, Constantine, Annaba, and Blida. Two of them were established in Numidia, behind the coastal areas controlled by Carthage. Our World In Data is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity Number 1186433). Many of the creatures comprising the Algerian wildlife live in close proximity to civilisation. In fact, by the time the Byzantines arrived Leptis Magna was abandoned and the Msellata region was occupied by the indigenous Laguatan who had been busy facilitating an Amazigh political, military and cultural revival.[23][24]. [109] Unemployment particularly affects the young, with a jobless rate of 21.5% among the 15–24 age group. In 1957 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. As a result, the agha charged the pasha with corruption and incompetence and seized power in 1659. There has been a transition from cinema which focused on the war of independence to films more concerned with the everyday lives of Algerians. Please check your download folder. By the early 4th century BC, Berbers formed the single largest element of the Carthaginian army. It is estimated that the population of Algeria will reach 44.40 million by the end of 2020. Access to "improved water sources" was limited to 92% of the population in urban areas and 80% of the population in the rural areas. In the region of Ain Hanech (Saïda Province), early remnants (200,000 BC) of hominid occupation in North Africa were found. Please consult our full legal disclaimer. The highest point is Mount Tahat (3,003 metres or 9,852 feet). These settlements served as market towns as well as anchorages. [48], Barbary raids in the Mediterranean continued to attack Spanish merchant shipping, and as a result, the Spanish Navy bombarded Algiers in 1783 and 1784. The only natural World Heritage Site is the Tassili n'Ajjer, a mountain range. It has the highest human development index of all non-island African countries and one of the largest economies on the continent, based largely on energy exports. [159], The first Algerian and African gold medalist is Boughera El Ouafi in 1928 Olympics of Amsterdam in the Marathon. 72.9% of the population in Algeria is urban. Estimates of the Christian population range from 60,000[149] to 200,000. [20] In a 2009 study the UNO estimated there were 45,000 Catholics and 50,000–100,000 Protestants in Algeria. Until 1587 the area was governed by officers who served terms with no fixed limits. In keeping with this policy, the government maintains an immunization program.
Total military personnel include 147,000 active, 150,000 reserve, and 187,000 paramilitary staff (2008 estimate). [64] Many Europeans settled in Oran and Algiers, and by the early 20th century they formed a majority of the population in both cities. [77] About 14% of the labor force are employed in the agricultural sector. Backlinks from other websites and blogs are the lifeblood of our site and are our primary source of new traffic. A Retrospective Study of the Algerian Iron and Steel Industry. Other new artistic currents including the one of M'hamed Issiakhem, Mohammed Khadda and Bachir Yelles, appeared on the scene of Algerian painting, abandoning figurative classical painting to find new pictorial ways, in order to adapt Algerian paintings to the new realities of the country through its struggle and its aspirations. Despite government allocation of substantial educational resources, population pressures and a serious shortage of teachers have severely strained the system, as have terrorist attacks against the educational infrastructure during the 1990s. There is not a dish where cereals are not present. Several names are engraved in the history of the sport, including Lakhdar Belloumi, Rachid Mekhloufi, Hassen Lalmas, Rabah Madjer, Salah Assad and Djamel Zidane. Famous novelists of the 20th century include Mohammed Dib, Albert Camus, Kateb Yacine and Ahlam Mosteghanemi while Assia Djebar is widely translated. Life expectancy. The most commonly seen animals include the wild boars, jackals, and gazelles, although it is not uncommon to spot fennecs (foxes), and jerboas.

In general, the country exported $73 billion worth of commodities while it imported $46 billion. Most of the coastal area is hilly, sometimes even mountainous, and there are a few natural harbours. A variety of bird species makes the country an attraction for bird watchers. Although the country has a vast land area, covering 2,381,741 square kilometers which are almost equivalent to 3.5 times the size of Texas, it has a relatively small population of 40.4 million residents. The Studies on Youth Policies In the Mediterranean Partner Countries - Algeria, notes: Today, the Algerian youth is socially considered through the mirror of the social crisis.