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Overview of the Country

Background:

  • Official name: People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria
  • Location: North Africa
  • Capital: Algiers
  • Official languages: Arabic and Tamazight
  • Population: 45,606,481 (2024, UNFPA Population Data Portal)
  • GDP: US$247.63 billion (2023, World Bank)
  • GNI per capita, PPP: US$16,580 (2023, current international $)

Membership:

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Critical sector strategic priorities in education

Equitable access, including preparatory education for five-year-olds, Tamazight teaching and support for children with specific needs; curriculum reform, core competencies, ICT skills and dropout reduction; digitised administration and participatory governance; teacher professionalisation through initial and continuing training; infrastructure rehabilitation and teacher allocation; and coordination with health, environment, youth and culture sectors.

Policy and strategy references

  • Government education policy: Politique gouvernementale dans le domaine de l’Education Nationale; 
  • Higher education legislation: Textes législatifs et réglementaires du secteur de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche scientifique; 
  • ICT in education: No standalone ICT-in-education policy identified in reviewed sources.
  • National education transformation report: Rapport National de l’Algérie available; 
  • Inclusive education: GEM/PEER inclusion profile available; 
  • TVET: UNEVOC country profile available.

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Governance structure for education

Education system structure

  • The public education pathway includes preparatory/basic schooling, primary, middle/lower secondary, secondary, TVET/vocational education and higher education.
  • No official structured table identified in reviewed sources.

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School-age population (2023)

  • Pre-primary: 130,131
  • Primary: 420,359
  • Lower secondary: 153,913
  • Upper secondary: 95,562

Gross enrolment ratio (2022)

  • Pre-primary: Not available in reviewed sources
  • Primary: 133.53%
  • Lower secondary: 116.86%
  • Upper secondary: Not available in reviewed sources

Completion rates

  • Primary: Not available in reviewed sources
  • Lower secondary: Not available in reviewed sources
  • Upper secondary: Not available in reviewed sources

Out-of-school rate

  • Primary school age: 0.38% (2015)
  • Lower secondary school age: 0.43% (2020)
  • Upper secondary school age: 47.81% (2022)

Sources

Minimum proficiency level

  • Reading, end of primary: 61.20% (2013)
  • Mathematics, end of primary: 17.40% (2013)
  • Grades 2/3 reading/mathematics: Not available in reviewed sources
  • End of lower secondary reading/mathematics: Not available in reviewed sources

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Teachers with minimum required qualifications

  • Pre-primary: 76.35% (2013)
  • Primary: 89.91% (2022)
  • Lower secondary: 100% (2017)
  • Upper secondary: Not available in reviewed sources

Teachers trained according to national standards

  • Pre-primary: Not available in reviewed sources
  • Primary: Not available in reviewed sources
  • Lower secondary: Not available in reviewed sources
  • Upper secondary: Not available in reviewed sources

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Electricity

  • Primary: 72.55% (2018)
  • Lower secondary: 93.33% (2017)
  • Upper secondary: 100.0% (2017)

Single-sex basic sanitation facilities

  • Primary: Not available in reviewed sources
  • Lower secondary: Not available in reviewed sources
  • Upper secondary: Not available in reviewed sources

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Participation in formal and non-formal education/training, ages 15-64 (2018)

  • Both sexes: 21.99%
  • Male: 22.64%
  • Female: 21.39%
  • Participation, ages 15-24 (2018)
  • Both sexes: 51.59%
  • Male: 52.49%
  • Female: 50.71%

Vocational education / NEET

  • Proportion of 15-24-year-olds enrolled in vocational education: Not available in reviewed sources
  • Share of youth not in employment, education or training (NEET): 21.0% (2017); male 10.9%; female 31.7%

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Tertiary education

  • Tertiary gross enrolment ratio: 28.89% (2022)
  • Male: 21.55%
  • Female: 36.04%
  • Higher education establishments under MESRS: 115, including 54 universities, 39 higher education institutions, 9 university centres and 13 higher education colleges
  • Higher education accreditation/quality assurance: CIAQES / MESRS quality assurance structure

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Gender parity / inclusion

  • Gross enrolment ratio GPI, primary: 0.96 (2022)
  • Gross enrolment ratio GPI, lower secondary: 1.05 (2022)
  • Gross enrolment ratio GPI, upper secondary: Not available in reviewed sources
  • Adjusted GPI for tertiary GER: 1.40 (2022)
  • Schools with adapted infrastructure/materials for students with disabilities: Not available in reviewed sources

Sources

Government expenditure on education

  • Percentage of GDP: 9.04% (2023)
  • Percentage of total government expenditure: 24.97% (2023)

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Literacy rate

  • 15+ years: 92.25% (2021)
  • 15-24 years: 95.55% (2021)
  • 25-64 years: Not available in reviewed sources
  • 65+ years: Not available in reviewed sources
  • Both sexes: 92.25%; male 92.16%; female 92.33% (2021)

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Internet for pedagogical purposes

  • Primary: Not available in reviewed sources
  • Lower secondary: Not available in reviewed sources
  • Upper secondary: Not available in reviewed sources
  • ICT-in-education policy: No standalone ICT-in-education policy identified in reviewed sources

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Refugees and asylum seekers

  • Not available in reviewed sources

Internally displaced persons due to conflict or disasters

  • Not available in reviewed sources

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