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Algeria vs Tunisia

113 shared metrics.

AlgeriaLeads in 59

vs113 shared

TunisiaLeads in 54

Algeria leads by 5 metrics. Use the same instinct in a quick real-data brawl.

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Country briefing

What matters for both sides

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Algeria

Quick notes before you compare the numbers.

Identity

Formal name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Algeria's Tassili n'Ajjer has 15,000+ prehistoric drawings, turning the Sahara into a climate-history wall.

UNESCO

Tunisia

Quick notes before you compare the numbers.

Identity

Formal name: Republic of Tunisia.

CIA 2026

Identity

Name origin: the country name derives from the capital city of Tunis.

CIA 2026

Analysis

Algeria leads in 59 of 113 shared metrics, while Tunisia leads in 54.

Algeria's Land Area is 14.3x that of Tunisia (2.38M km² vs 155.4K km²).

Algeria's Airports is 6.0x that of Tunisia (98 vs 14).

Algeria's Armed Forces Personnel is 5.8x that of Tunisia (326.0K vs 48.0K).

Algeria's Total CO2 Emissions is 4.8x that of Tunisia (186.36 Mt CO2e vs 32.18 Mt CO2e).

Algeria's GDP (Nominal) is 4.3x that of Tunisia ($269,322,281,664.77 vs $51,332,285,656.54).

Key Comparisons

Land AreaAlgeria leads

Algeria

2.38M km²

Tunisia

155.4K km²

AirportsAlgeria leads

Algeria

Tunisia

Armed Forces PersonnelAlgeria leads

Algeria

326.0K

Tunisia

48.0K

Total CO2 EmissionsAlgeria leads

Algeria

186.36 Mt CO2e

Tunisia

32.18 Mt CO2e

GDP (Nominal)Algeria leads

Algeria

$269,322,281,664.77

Tunisia

$51,332,285,656.54

Electricity GenerationAlgeria leads

Algeria

101.11 TWh

Tunisia

20.83 TWh

All Metrics

Land Area

Algeria

2.38M km²

Tunisia

155.4K km²

1433% higher

Airports

Algeria

Tunisia

600% higher

Armed Forces Personnel

Algeria

326.0K

Tunisia

48.0K

579% higher

Total CO2 Emissions

Algeria

186.36 Mt CO2e

Tunisia

32.18 Mt CO2e

479% higher

GDP (Nominal)

Algeria

$269,322,281,664.77

Tunisia

$51,332,285,656.54

425% higher

Electricity Generation

Algeria

101.11 TWh

Tunisia

20.83 TWh

385% higher

Land Border Length

Algeria

6.7K km

Tunisia

1.5K km

350% higher

Population

Algeria

47.74M

Tunisia

11.96M

299% higher

Irrigated Land

Algeria

13.8K km²

Tunisia

3.9K km²

253% higher

Border Neighbors

Algeria

7.0

Tunisia

2.0

250% higher

Electric Generating Capacity

Algeria

22.59M kW

Tunisia

6.64M kW

240% higher

Shipping Traffic

Algeria

1.54M

Tunisia

464.8K

232% higher

Military Spending

Algeria

8.0% of GDP

Tunisia

2.5% of GDP

218% higher

Forest Area

Algeria

19.8K km²

Tunisia

7.1K km²

180% higher

Water Withdrawal

Algeria

10.29 B m³

Tunisia

3.9 B m³

166% higher

Minimum Paid Vacation Days

Algeria

30 days/yr

Tunisia

12 days/yr

150% higher

GDP Growth Rate

Algeria

3.7%

Tunisia

1.6%

129% higher

Railway Network

Algeria

4.0K km

Tunisia

1.8K km

125% higher

Teen Birth Rate

Algeria

8.7 per 1k

Tunisia

4.3 per 1k

102% higher

Credit Card Ownership

Algeria

5.2% of adults

Tunisia

2.6% of adults

101% higher

Comparison of Algeria and Tunisia across 113 metrics
				Winner
Land Area	2.38M km²	155.4K km²	1433% higher	Algeria
Airports	98	14	600% higher	Algeria
Armed Forces Personnel	326.0K	48.0K	579% higher	Algeria
Total CO2 Emissions	186.36 Mt CO2e	32.18 Mt CO2e	479% higher	Algeria
GDP (Nominal)	$269,322,281,664.77	$51,332,285,656.54	425% higher	Algeria
Electricity Generation	101.11 TWh	20.83 TWh	385% higher	Algeria
Land Border Length	6.7K km	1.5K km	350% higher	Algeria
Population	47.74M	11.96M	299% higher	Algeria
Irrigated Land	13.8K km²	3.9K km²	253% higher	Algeria
Border Neighbors	7.0	2.0	250% higher	Algeria
Electric Generating Capacity	22.59M kW	6.64M kW	240% higher	Algeria
Shipping Traffic	1.54M	464.8K	232% higher	Algeria
Military Spending	8.0% of GDP	2.5% of GDP	218% higher	Algeria
Forest Area	19.8K km²	7.1K km²	180% higher	Algeria
Water Withdrawal	10.29 B m³	3.9 B m³	166% higher	Algeria
Minimum Paid Vacation Days	30 days/yr	12 days/yr	150% higher	Algeria
GDP Growth Rate	3.7%	1.6%	129% higher	Algeria
Railway Network	4.0K km	1.8K km	125% higher	Algeria
Teen Birth Rate	8.7 per 1k	4.3 per 1k	102% higher	Algeria
Credit Card Ownership	5.2% of adults	2.6% of adults	101% higher	Algeria
Official Languages Count	2.0	1.0	100% higher	Algeria
Wind Electricity Share	0.02%	1.5%	99% lower	Tunisia
Renewable Energy (%)	0.10%	11.6%	99% lower	Tunisia
Tourism Revenue	$50,000,000	$1,007,000,000	95% lower	Tunisia
Highest Elevation	2.9K m	1.5K m	88% higher	Algeria
Infant Mortality	19.7 per 1k births	10.6 per 1k births	86% higher	Algeria
Railway Length	4.0K km	2.2K km	85% higher	Algeria
Fertility Rate	2.9 children/woman	1.6 children/woman	83% higher	Algeria
Forest Coverage (%)	0.83%	4.6%	82% lower	Tunisia
Time Zones Count	1.0 time zones	4.0 time zones	75% lower	Tunisia
Population Density	19.38 /km²	78.53 /km²	75% lower	Tunisia
Homicide Rate	1.2 per 100k	4.7 per 100k	75% lower	Tunisia
Air Passengers	7.16M	4.11M	74% higher	Algeria
Birth Rate	19.62 per 1k	11.35 per 1k	73% higher	Algeria
Seafood Consumption per Person	3.8 kg/person/yr	13.65 kg/person/yr	72% lower	Tunisia
Agricultural Land (%)	17.36%	62.44%	72% lower	Tunisia
Child Mortality	22 per 1k births	12.9 per 1k births	71% higher	Algeria
Tourist Arrivals	591.0K	2.01M	71% lower	Tunisia
Beer Consumption	0.25 L/person/yr	0.83 L/person/yr	70% lower	Tunisia
FDI Inflows (% GDP)	0.46% of GDP	1.5% of GDP	69% lower	Tunisia
Alcohol Consumption	0.54 L/adult/yr	1.7 L/adult/yr	68% lower	Tunisia
Merchant Fleet Size	119	72	65% higher	Algeria
Imports (% GDP)	20.28% of GDP	56.3% of GDP	64% lower	Tunisia
ATMs per 100,000 Adults	11.96 per 100k	32.72 per 100k	63% lower	Tunisia
Political Corruption Index	0.66	0.41	61% higher	Algeria
Exports (% GDP)	19.85% of GDP	50% of GDP	60% lower	Tunisia
Solar Electricity Share	1.0%	2.5%	59% lower	Tunisia
CO2 Per Capita	4.2 t/person/yr	2.7 t/person/yr	59% higher	Algeria
Energy Use (Per Capita)	1.5K kg oil eq/person	956.04 kg oil eq/person	57% higher	Algeria
Government Debt (% GDP)	27.5% of GDP	62.3% of GDP	56% lower	Tunisia
Liberal Democracy Index	0.13	0.27	52% lower	Tunisia
Women in Parliament (%)	7.9%	15.69%	50% lower	Tunisia
Nobel Laureates Born per Million People	0.04 per 1M people	0.08 per 1M people	50% lower	Tunisia
Health Spending (% GDP)	3.6% of GDP	7.0% of GDP	48% lower	Tunisia
Freedom of Expression Index	0.37	0.69	47% lower	Tunisia
Digital Payments Used	13.09% of adults	23.68% of adults	45% lower	Tunisia
Inflation Rate	4.0%	7.2%	44% lower	Tunisia
University Enrollment Rate	54.43%	38.12%	43% higher	Algeria
Protected Land (%)	4.7%	7.9%	41% lower	Tunisia
GNI Per Capita	$5,370	$3,880	38% higher	Algeria
Meat Consumption per Person	18.06 kg/person/yr	28.36 kg/person/yr	36% lower	Tunisia
Scientific Publications	7.6K	5.7K	33% higher	Algeria
Hospital Beds (per 1,000)	1.6 per 1k	2.4 per 1k	33% lower	Tunisia
Electoral Democracy Index	0.27	0.40	33% lower	Tunisia
Health Spending Per Capita	$179.7	$265.85	32% lower	Tunisia
Death Rate	4.4 per 1k	6.4 per 1k	31% lower	Tunisia
Elderly Population (%)	6.6%	9.5%	31% lower	Tunisia
Unemployment Rate	11.43%	16.2%	29% lower	Tunisia
Food Waste per Person	153.45 kg/person/yr	212.55 kg/person/yr	28% lower	Tunisia
Doctors (per 1,000)	1.7 per 1k	1.3 per 1k	26% higher	Algeria
Youth Population (%)	30.33%	24.04%	26% higher	Algeria
Milk Consumption per Person	141.53 kg/person/yr	114.47 kg/person/yr	24% higher	Algeria
Youth Unemployment Rate	29.44% of youth labor force	38.08% of youth labor force	23% lower	Tunisia
GDP Per Capita (PPP)	int. $18,586.26	int. $15,233.49	22% higher	Algeria
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	7.0 sites	9.0 sites	22% lower	Tunisia
Life Evaluation Score	5.7 pts	4.8 pts	19% higher	Algeria
Women's Political Empowerment	0.63	0.77	18% lower	Tunisia
Suicide Rate	2.2 per 100k	1.8 per 100k	18% higher	Algeria
Education Spending (% GDP)	5.6% of GDP	6.7% of GDP	17% lower	Tunisia
All-Time Olympic Gold Medals	7.0 gold medals	6.0 gold medals	17% higher	Algeria
Dependency Ratio	58.51% of working-age pop.	50.53% of working-age pop.	16% higher	Algeria
Electricity Use (Per Capita)	1.8K kWh/person	1.6K kWh/person	15% higher	Algeria
Obesity Rate	24.25%	28.26%	14% lower	Tunisia
Broadband Access (%)	12 per 100 people	14 per 100 people	14% lower	Tunisia
Corruption Perceptions Index	34 pts	39 pts	13% lower	Tunisia
Coastline Length	998 km	1.1K km	13% lower	Tunisia
Sanitation Access (%)	85.91%	98.54%	13% lower	Tunisia
Electricity Carbon Intensity	632.94 gCO2/kWh	560.29 gCO2/kWh	13% higher	Algeria
Median Age	28.2 years	32.1 years	12% lower	Tunisia
Road Traffic Death Rate	18.3 per 100k	16.3 per 100k	12% higher	Algeria
All-Time Olympic Medals	20 medals	18 medals	11% higher	Algeria
Tobacco Use Prevalence	22.1% of adults	24.3% of adults	9% lower	Tunisia
Internet Users (%)	77%	72%	7% higher	Algeria
Urban Population (%)	75.28%	70.36%	7% higher	Algeria
Safe Drinking Water (%)	69.03%	64.98%	6% higher	Algeria
Air Pollution (PM2.5)	25.55 µg/m³	24.18 µg/m³	6% higher	Algeria
Hypertension Prevalence	36.2% of adults	34.6% of adults	5% higher	Algeria
Smoking Rate	21.2%	20.5%	3% higher	Algeria
Mobile Subscriptions (%)	115 per 100 people	118 per 100 people	3% lower	Tunisia
Human Development Index	0.76	0.75	2% higher	Algeria
Spirits Consumption	0.07 L/person/yr	0.07 L/person/yr	2% lower	Tunisia
Average Weekly Work Hours	43.7 hrs/week	43.26 hrs/week	1% higher	Algeria
Water Stress (%)	91.51%	92.11%	1% lower	Tunisia
Can Raise Emergency Money	87.78% of adults	88.39% of adults	1% lower	Tunisia
Insufficient Physical Activity	29.04% of adults	29.2% of adults	1% lower	Tunisia
Coal Electricity Share	0%	0%	ranked higher	Algeria
Electricity Access (%)	100%	100%	equal	Algeria
Life Expectancy	76.3 years	76.5 years	equal	Tunisia
Capital Elevation	0 m	4.0 m	ranked lower	Tunisia
Lowest Elevation	-40 m	-17 m	ranked lower	Tunisia
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)	-7.7% of GDP	-2.8% of GDP	ranked lower	Tunisia
EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0.03 per 100k people	0.03 per 100k people	equal	Algeria
McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0 per 1M people	0 per 1M people	ranked higher	Algeria

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Analysis

Algeria leads in 59 of 113 shared metrics, while Tunisia leads in 54.

Algeria's Land Area is 14.3x that of Tunisia (2.38M km² vs 155.4K km²).

Algeria's Airports is 6.0x that of Tunisia (98 vs 14).

Algeria's Armed Forces Personnel is 5.8x that of Tunisia (326.0K vs 48.0K).

Algeria's Total CO2 Emissions is 4.8x that of Tunisia (186.36 Mt CO2e vs 32.18 Mt CO2e).

Algeria's GDP (Nominal) is 4.3x that of Tunisia ($269,322,281,664.77 vs $51,332,285,656.54).

Key Comparisons

Land AreaAlgeria leads

Algeria

2.38M km²

Tunisia

155.4K km²

AirportsAlgeria leads

Algeria

Tunisia

Armed Forces PersonnelAlgeria leads

Algeria

326.0K

Tunisia

48.0K

Total CO2 EmissionsAlgeria leads

Algeria

186.36 Mt CO2e

Tunisia

32.18 Mt CO2e

GDP (Nominal)Algeria leads

Algeria

$269,322,281,664.77

Tunisia

$51,332,285,656.54

Electricity GenerationAlgeria leads

Algeria

101.11 TWh

Tunisia

20.83 TWh

Land Area

2.38M km²

155.4K km²

Airports

Armed Forces Personnel

326.0K

48.0K

Total CO2 Emissions

186.36 Mt CO2e

32.18 Mt CO2e

GDP (Nominal)

$269,322,281,664.77

$51,332,285,656.54

Electricity Generation

101.11 TWh

20.83 TWh

Land Border Length

6.7K km

1.5K km

Population

47.74M

11.96M

Irrigated Land

13.8K km²

3.9K km²

Border Neighbors

7.0

2.0

Electric Generating Capacity

22.59M kW

6.64M kW

Shipping Traffic

1.54M

464.8K

Military Spending

8.0% of GDP

2.5% of GDP

Forest Area

19.8K km²

7.1K km²

Water Withdrawal

10.29 B m³

3.9 B m³

Minimum Paid Vacation Days

30 days/yr

12 days/yr

GDP Growth Rate

3.7%

1.6%

Railway Network

4.0K km

1.8K km

Teen Birth Rate

8.7 per 1k

4.3 per 1k

Credit Card Ownership

5.2% of adults

2.6% of adults

Algeria vs Tunisia

What matters for both sides

Algeria

Tunisia

Analysis

Key Comparisons

All Metrics

Land Area

Airports

Armed Forces Personnel

Total CO2 Emissions

GDP (Nominal)

Electricity Generation

Land Border Length

Population

Irrigated Land

Border Neighbors

Electric Generating Capacity

Shipping Traffic

Military Spending

Forest Area

Water Withdrawal

Minimum Paid Vacation Days

GDP Growth Rate

Railway Network

Teen Birth Rate

Credit Card Ownership

Official Languages Count

Wind Electricity Share

Renewable Energy (%)

Tourism Revenue

Highest Elevation

Infant Mortality

Railway Length

Fertility Rate

Forest Coverage (%)

Time Zones Count

Population Density

Homicide Rate

Air Passengers

Birth Rate

Seafood Consumption per Person

Agricultural Land (%)

Child Mortality

Tourist Arrivals

Beer Consumption

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

Alcohol Consumption

Merchant Fleet Size

Imports (% GDP)

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

Political Corruption Index

Exports (% GDP)

Solar Electricity Share

CO2 Per Capita

Energy Use (Per Capita)

Government Debt (% GDP)

Liberal Democracy Index

Women in Parliament (%)

Nobel Laureates Born per Million People

Health Spending (% GDP)

Freedom of Expression Index

Digital Payments Used

Inflation Rate

University Enrollment Rate

Protected Land (%)

GNI Per Capita

Meat Consumption per Person

Scientific Publications

Hospital Beds (per 1,000)

Electoral Democracy Index

Health Spending Per Capita

Death Rate

Elderly Population (%)

Unemployment Rate

Food Waste per Person

Doctors (per 1,000)

Youth Population (%)

Milk Consumption per Person

Youth Unemployment Rate