Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Algeria

5.5% of people in Algeria lived below the national poverty line in 2011.

Measure: Poverty rate at national poverty lines Unit: % of population Data: 1988 to 2011 Source: World Bank
The latest value for Algeria is for 2011. Most countries have figures for 2021.
Algeria, 2011 5.5% % of population
Change from 1995 −17.1percentage points 1995: 22.6%

Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Algeria over time

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% of population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Poverty rate at national poverty lines (% of population), 2011 to 2011
Period Algeria
2011 5.5%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • The previous available figure was 22.6% in 1995, a change of −17.1 percentage points.
  • Since 1988, when it was 12.2%, the figure has changed by −6.7 percentage points.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SI.POV.NAHC · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1988 to 2011 for Algeria
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources