1. FertilityAlgeria

   Algeria: from 6.04 to 3.49 children per woman in just 10 years

   From 1985 to 1995 the number of children per woman fell faster than in any other decade since 1950. Around that period: urban share 47.9% → 56% (1985–1995); life expectancy 64.2 years → 67.7 years (1985–1995). This does not establish a cause.

   Source: UN WPP 2024, World Bank, 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: all 11 UN projections since 1998 expected fewer births
• 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

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