Algeria

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    42,008,054 1
    Urban
    72.60% 1
    Rural
    27.40% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    0.6% 2
    Homicides
    1.37 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
    Level of Public Corruption
    108 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
    120 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 7
    Fertility Rate
    2.81 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    2.60% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    75 years 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    72.65% 5
    Internet Users
    18% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$5,490 5

    These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

    Baptized Catholics
    8,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    0.02
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    1
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    21
    First Communions per Year
    23
    Confirmations per Year
    9
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    602
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    624
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
    3,614
    Church Marriages per Year
    1
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    1
    Priests
    62
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    116
    Catholics per Priest
    135
    Parishes
    30
    Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
    2
    • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
    • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
    • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
    • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
    • 5 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.
    • 6 Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022).
    • 7 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.