1. ForecastsAlgeria

   Algeria: all 11 UN projections since 1998 expected fewer births

   The UN's 1998 projection expected 746k births a year on average for 2015–2020; the outcome was 1.03M (+37%). The latest checked one: the UN's 2022 projection expected 895k births for 2023; the outcome was 906k (+1%). "Outcome" here is the UN's own current estimate, not registration data.

   Source: UN World Population Prospects 1998–2024; national statisticsOpen on the chart →

More findings

• Algeria: more and more women go to university, yet only 1 in 7 women work or seek work
• Algeria: 68 thousand more people died than usual in 2020–2021; officially 6,229 died of COVID
• Algeria: the ONS 2018 projection expected births of 954k for 2023; the outcome was 895k
• The highest military spending relative to the economy
• Algeria: fertility has been falling since 2016, from 3.09 to 2.77 children per woman
• Algeria: from 6.04 to 3.49 children per woman in just 10 years

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