- ISO 3166
DZ- Main language + region
arq-DZ- Currency
- DZD · Algerian Dinar
- Region
- EMEA · MENA · MENAP
Algeria
Algeria has 47M people, and 36.4M of them are online. Algerian Arabic is the most widely spoken language at 83%, one of 7 languages CLDR lists here. Arabic and French are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to arq-DZ.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
36.4M
0%world median 81%100%
77% of 47M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$6,051
Higher than 39% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
35%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
7
Algerian Arabic 83% · Arabic 74% · French 33%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
468
Very lowVery high
Low proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
73%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Algeria
share of 47M people
- Algerian Arabic83%39M
- Arabicofficial74%34.8M
- Frenchofficial33%15.5M
- Hassaniyya11%5.2M
- Kabyle7.8%3.7M
- English7%3.3M
- Tumzabt0.4%169.3K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR also records diaspora populations, so a language reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (arq-DZ).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
April 21, 2026
Short: 4/21/26
Time
6:30 PM
Week starts Sat
Currency
DZD 1,234.56
1,234.56 in DZD · Algerian Dinar