Distillers Algeria
A one-page guide to Algeria for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Algiers
- Official languages
- Arabic, Tamazight
- Currency
- Algerian dinar (DZD)
- Time zone
- UTC+1
- Area
- 2,381,740 km²
People
- Population
- 47.4 million (2025)
- Population growth
- 1.3% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 75.8%
- Aged under 15
- 29.9%
- Aged 65 and over
- 6.8%
- Life expectancy
- 76.5 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$287.0 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$6,051 (2025)
- Economic growth
- 3.82% (2025)
- Inflation
- 1.42% (2025)
Climate
Semi-arid. The Sahara covers most of the territory; the mountainous north holds most people. Coastal Tell Atlas gets roughly 400-670 mm of rain a year, less inland. Desert summer temperatures can reach about 43 C with cool nights.
Alcohol
- Legal drinking age
- Purchase age 18 (Order No. 26-75 of 1975, Art. 14)
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 0.42 litres of pure alcohol (2024)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); World Bank API (population, area, GDP, growth, inflation); WHO GHO OData (SA_0000001688); UN Comtrade public preview API (HS 2208); Wikipedia: Algeria; Wikipedia: Legal drinking age; Euromonitor: Spirits in Algeria (Sept 2026, listing). Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.