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Topic 11 of 18 · Country Index 2026
Algeria: Risk & Resilience
How exposed is a country to crisis, and how ready is it to cope?
Algeria is placed 116th of 192 countries on risk & resilience in the Country Index 2026, from 3 of its 3 key statistics. Readings behind it: World Risk Index 9.25 (2025); INFORM Risk Index 4.3 (2025).
Risk & Resilience
116th
of 192 countries placed
Placed from 3 of 3 key statistics
01The evidence
The 3 key statistics that decide it
Only these place Algeria on risk & resilience — one vote each. Every value is the publisher’s own, read at the edition the Country Index 2026 used; the grey ticks are every other country it was compared with, lowest on the left.
Key 1 of 3
World Risk Index
Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr University Bochum
Why it is a key: Exposure to natural hazards set against the capacity a country has to cope with them.
2025 edition · data for 2025 · CC BY 4.0
9.25
WorldRiskIndex score (0–100, where 100 is the most at risk)
Lower is better
Algeria: 9.25. Across the 193 countries in this edition, values run from 0.18 (Monaco) to 46.56 (Philippines); the world median is 4.17.
- World median
- 4.17
- Best in Northern Africa
- 7.67 Tunisia
- Land neighbours
- Libya 15.69 · Morocco 10.55 · Mali 2.24 · Mauritania 9.06 · Niger 2.17 · Tunisia 7.67
Each grey tick is one of 193 countries in the 2025 edition.
Key 2 of 3
INFORM Risk Index
European Commission Joint Research Centre, with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee
Why it is a key: Humanitarian crisis risk, which counts conflict and displacement that the hazard indices leave out. Correlates 0.468 with the World Risk Index.
2026 edition · data for 2025 · CC BY 4.0 (via the European Commission's reuse policy)
4.3
INFORM Risk score (0–10, where 10 is the highest risk)
Lower is better
Algeria: 4.3. Across the 191 countries in this edition, values run from 0.7 (Singapore) to 8.5 (South Sudan); the world median is 3.7.
- World median
- 3.7
- Best in Northern Africa
- 3.5 Tunisia
- Land neighbours
- Libya 5.8 · Morocco 4.1 · Mali 7.1 · Mauritania 5.5 · Niger 7.5 · Tunisia 3.5
Each grey tick is one of 191 countries in the 2026 edition.
Key 3 of 3
Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN)
Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame
Why it is a key: How exposed and sensitive a country’s food, water, health, ecosystems, housing and infrastructure are to a changing climate, set against its capacity to adapt — the slow-onset climate risk the hazard and crisis indices do not isolate.
2024 edition · data for 2024 · CC BY 3.0 Unported
0.43
ND-GAIN Vulnerability (0–1, where 1 is the most vulnerable)
Lower is better
Ranked 83rd of 190 by Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame
Algeria: 0.43. Across the 190 countries in this edition, values run from 0.263 (Norway) to 0.655 (Mauritania); the world median is 0.45.
- World median
- 0.45
- Best in Northern Africa
- 0.43 Algeria
- Land neighbours
- Libya 0.49 · Morocco 0.45 · Mali 0.585 · Mauritania 0.655 · Niger 0.587 · Tunisia 0.441
Each grey tick is one of 190 countries in the 2024 edition.
02Over time
Which way Algeria is moving
Each key’s published value, edition by edition, beside the world median. The Country Index 2026 is the first edition of the standing, so the standing itself has no history to chart yet.
World Risk Index
WorldRiskIndex score (0–100, where 100 is the most at risk) · lower is better
AlgeriaWorld median
Algeria fell from 10.28 in 2000 to 9.25 in 2025; the world median went from 4.55 to 4.17.
Every year’s figures
Year Algeria World median 2025 9.25 4.17 2024 9.25 4.17 2023 9.29 4.27 2022 8.98 4.08 2021 9.77 4.23 2020 9.68 4.12 2019 9.70 4.23 2018 9.24 4.14 2017 8.81 4.24 2016 10.26 4.23 2015 9.10 4.04 2014 8.09 4.07 2013 9.19 4.08 2012 8.97 4.07 2011 8.87 3.99 2010 8.94 3.86 2009 9.79 3.94 2008 10.34 4.11 2007 10.38 4.41 2006 10.23 4.51 2005 10.28 4.54 2004 10.52 4.42 2003 10.54 4.50 2002 10.37 4.65 2001 10.57 4.37 2000 10.28 4.55 INFORM Risk Index
INFORM Risk score (0–10, where 10 is the highest risk) · lower is better
AlgeriaWorld median
Algeria fell from 4.4 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2025; the world median went from 3.6 to 3.7.
Every year’s figures
Year Algeria World median 2025 4.3 3.7 2024 4.2 3.5 2023 4.0 3.6 2022 4.2 3.6 2021 4.2 3.6 2020 4.4 3.6 2019 4.4 3.6 2018 4.4 3.5 2017 4.5 3.5 2016 4.4 3.6 Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN)
ND-GAIN Vulnerability (0–1, where 1 is the most vulnerable) · lower is better
AlgeriaWorld median
Algeria fell from 0.462 in 2000 to 0.43 in 2024; the world median went from 0.476 to 0.45.
Every year’s figures
Year Algeria World median 2024 0.42988 0.449649 2023 0.42995 0.449167 2022 0.43026 0.447422 2021 0.43207 0.447831 2020 0.43174 0.447902 2019 0.45477 0.447883 2018 0.45184 0.449652 2017 0.45002 0.450532 2016 0.44809 0.451843 2015 0.44865 0.451496 2014 0.44829 0.451502 2013 0.44909 0.454946 2012 0.45080 0.454269 2011 0.45189 0.458012 2010 0.44932 0.460715 2009 0.45052 0.464712 2008 0.45329 0.463801 2007 0.45332 0.466738 2006 0.45325 0.468701 2005 0.45585 0.470646 2004 0.45870 0.472029 2003 0.46154 0.471635 2002 0.46539 0.472031 2001 0.46287 0.476366 2000 0.46179 0.475585
03In context
Algeria beside its neighbours
A position reads best beside the countries around it. Every position below is a place among all 192 countries on risk & resilience, never a place within the region.
1st192ndNot placed · 32 countries with too few key statisticsNo data
Algeria and the countries it borders
The standing is each country’s place among all 192 placed on the topic; the other columns are the publishers’ own values, read at the edition the standing used.
| Country | Standing | World Risk IndexWorldRiskIndex score (0–100, where 100 is the most at risk) | INFORM Risk IndexINFORM Risk score (0–10, where 10 is the highest risk) | Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN)ND-GAIN Vulnerability (0–1, where 1 is the most vulnerable) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Tunisia | 101st | 7.67 | 3.5 | 0.441 |
| Algeria | 116th | 9.25 | 4.3 | 0.43 |
 Morocco | 120th | 10.55 | 4.1 | 0.45 |
 Mali | 149th | 2.24 | 7.1 | 0.585 |
 Niger | 150th | 2.17 | 7.5 | 0.587 |
 Libya | 174th | 15.69 | 5.8 | 0.49 |
 Mauritania | 180th | 9.06 | 5.5 | 0.655 |
“—” means the publisher gives no reading for that country in that edition. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed.
Across Northern Africa
Every country in the sub-region, by its place among all 192.
Placed either side on risk & resilience
The countries immediately above and below Algeria in the topic’s list.
04Context, no vote
Where Algeria is ahead of the world, and behind
10 more statistics filed under risk & resilience, published in full and deliberately given no vote in the standing. Select a row for the publisher, the rank and the links.
Ahead of the world median1
Statistics on which Algeria does better than the middle country measured.
INFORM Severity IndexACAPS · 2025 · world median 3.12.63.1▲ Improved since 2022
Algeria: 2.6 · world median 3.1 · INFORM Severity (1–5, most severe crisis). ACAPS, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 1.3 to 4.7; lower is better.
Position 52nd of 81 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = worst. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Behind the world median6
Statistics on which Algeria does worse than the middle country measured.
ND-GAIN Country IndexNotre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame · 2024 · world median 47.4447.4147.44▲ Improved since 2014
Algeria: 47.41 · world median 47.44 · ND-GAIN Index (0–100, where 100 is best placed to adapt). Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 26.42 to 71.85; higher is better.
Ranked 96th of 190 by Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame.
Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN)Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame · 2024 · world median 0.3870.3780.387▲ Improved since 2014
Algeria: 0.378 · world median 0.387 · ND-GAIN Readiness (0–1, where 1 is the most ready). Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0.137 to 0.749; higher is better.
Ranked 106th of 192 by Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame.
Internal Displacements by DisasterIDMC · 2024 · world median 4,75015,0004,750▼ Worsened since 2014
Algeria: 15,000 · world median 4,750 · New displacements by disaster (people). Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 1 to 11,001,000; lower is better.
Position 62nd of 160 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = worst. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Political Stability and Absence of ViolenceWorld Bank Group · 2025 · world median 0.171-0.6630.171▲ Improved since 2015
Algeria: -0.663 · world median 0.171 · Political Stability estimate (−2.5 to 2.5). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from -2.506 to 1.563; higher is better.
Position 170th of 211 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per CapitaFAO · 2022 · world median 2,528247.312,528No real change since 2012
Algeria: 247.31 · world median 2,528 · Renewable internal freshwater (cubic metres per person). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 445,023; higher is better.
Position 164th of 181 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Water StressFAO · 2023 · world median 10144.8110▼ Worsened since 2013
Algeria: 144.81 · world median 10 · Freshwater withdrawal as a share of available resources (%). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 0.03 to 3,851; lower is better.
Position 8th of 177 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = worst. The publisher ranks no country on this.
No better end3
These describe the shape of a country — more is not better or worse, only different — so they are never ahead or behind.
Refugee Population by Country of AsylumUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency · 2025 · world median 12,269180,57512,269No real change since 2015
Algeria: 180,575 · world median 12,269 · Refugees under UNHCR's mandate hosted, end of year (people). UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 2,655,191.
Refugees by Country of OriginUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency · 2025 · world median 1,2729,1741,272Moved since 2015
Algeria: 9,174 · world median 1,272 · Refugees under UNHCR's mandate from this country, end of year (people). UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 5,224,131.
Asylum-Seekers by Country of AsylumUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency · 2025 · world median 1,8363,6901,836Moved since 2015
Algeria: 3,690 · world median 1,836 · Asylum-seekers awaiting a decision, end of year (people). UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 3,718,945.
No current reading for Algeria
Global Report on Food Crises. Listed rather than hidden, so the page can be checked against it.
05Country Index 2026
Risk & Resilience among Algeria’s 15 topics
Risk & Resilience is Algeria’s 5th best-placed topic of 15. Strongest first; each marker sits at the position divided by that topic’s field, so fields of different sizes compare fairly.
- Education & Knowledge50th of 1713/4 keys
- Digital & Technology96th of 1983/3 keys
- Health & Wellbeing97th of 2004/4 keys
- Development & Human Capital100th of 1963/3 keys
- Risk & Resilience116th of 1923/3 keys
- Food & Agriculture114th of 1754/4 keys
- Mobility & Trade98th of 1472/3 keys
- Democracy & Civil Liberties145th of 1983/3 keys
- Economy & Innovation137th of 1763/4 keys
- Governance & Institutions152nd of 1944/4 keys
- Energy154th of 1933/3 keys
- Gender & Equality159th of 1832/4 keys
- Environment & Sustainability165th of 1812/3 keys
- Peace & Security166th of 1773/4 keys
- Work & Labour176th of 1824/4 keys
No standing on Poverty & Inequality: too few of those topics’ key statistics are published for this country.
06The top of the list
Who leads on risk & resilience
The three countries placed highest of 192, and the leaders Algeria can most readily be measured against.
1
LiechtensteinWestern Europe
1st of 192 · 2 of 3 keys
Photo: Guido Radig,Inkey · CC BY 3.0, greyscale
2
LuxembourgWestern Europe
2nd of 192 · 3 of 3 keys
Photo: Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium · CC BY-SA 2.0, greyscale
3
SwitzerlandWestern Europe
3rd of 192 · 3 of 3 keys
Photo: Simon Koopmann derivative work: Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 2.0 de, greyscale
Placed highest nearby
Highest in Africa
Seychelles29th3/3 keysHighest in Northern Africa
Tunisia101st3/3 keysThis page
Algeria116th3/3 keys
Positions out of 192 placed on the topic. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed, and the top of the list is often held on fewer of them.
07Questions
Algeria on risk & resilience: questions answered
Every answer is built from the numbers on this page, so none can say something the page does not.
How does Algeria rank on risk & resilience?
Algeria is placed 116th of 192 countries on Risk & Resilience in the Country Index 2026, from 3 of its 3 key statistics (World Risk Index, INFORM Risk Index and Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN)). The position is this site’s ordering of published statistics, not a rank any publisher printed.
What is the latest World Risk Index figure for Algeria?
9.25 in 2025 (worldRiskIndex score (0–100, where 100 is the most at risk)), according to Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr University Bochum. The world median in the same edition was 4.17.
What is the latest INFORM Risk Index figure for Algeria?
4.3 in 2025 (iNFORM Risk score (0–10, where 10 is the highest risk)), according to European Commission Joint Research Centre, with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee. The world median in the same edition was 3.7.
How does Algeria compare with Morocco on risk & resilience?
Morocco is placed 120th of 192, and Algeria 116th. World Risk Index: Morocco 10.55, Algeria 9.25; INFORM Risk Index: Morocco 4.1, Algeria 4.3; Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN): Morocco 0.45, Algeria 0.43.
How have Algeria’s risk & resilience figures changed?
World Risk Index fell from 10.28 in 2000 to 9.25 in 2025; INFORM Risk Index fell from 4.4 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2025; Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN) fell from 0.462 in 2000 to 0.43 in 2024.
Which risk & resilience statistics are missing for Algeria?
No current reading is published for Algeria on Global Report on Food Crises. They are listed rather than hidden, so the evidence on the page can be checked against it.
08Keep reading
Explore further
Algeria, topic by topic
- Governance & Institutions152nd of 194
- Economy & Innovation137th of 176
- Work & Labour176th of 182
- Education & Knowledge50th of 171
- Health & Wellbeing97th of 200
- Development & Human Capital100th of 196
- Environment & Sustainability165th of 181
- Gender & Equality159th of 183
- Democracy & Civil Liberties145th of 198
- Peace & Security166th of 177
- Mobility & Trade98th of 147
- Food & Agriculture114th of 175
- Energy154th of 193
- Digital & Technology96th of 198
- The full Algeria profile
Nearby, on risk & resilience
The key statistics, for every country
09Method
Method, sources and how to cite
What this topic does not measure
This topic does not forecast when a disaster will strike, and it does not measure financial or economic risk. Water stress is measured under Environment & Sustainability. Displacement caused by disasters and the severity of crises already under way are published here as context.
How the Risk & Resilience standing is decided, step by step
A standing is a place in a list, not a mark out of anything. This one is part of the Country Index 2026, and it is worked out like this.
- A few key indicators decide it; the rest are context. 3 indicators on this topic are keys and 11 are charted alongside them without a vote. That split is the point: if every statistic voted, importing five more of one kind would quietly change what the topic is about.
- Each key is read at one edition. ⚠ The keys behind this standing do not all describe the same year — they run from 2024 to 2025, because publishers release on their own schedules. Read the standing as “how this country places now”, not as a snapshot of one year.
- Every country’s published value is turned into a place within that one key’s own field, and then expressed as a share of that field — how far down this key’s list the country sits, rather than how many countries are above it. Keys where a higher published number is worse (terrorism, hunger, disaster risk) are turned round first, so the good end is always the same end.
- Dividing by the field first is the whole reason this works. A place carries the size of its list inside it: 22nd of 44 and 108th of 215 are the same showing, and averaging the numbers 22 and 108 says loudly that they are not. Fields on this site run from about 44 countries to about 215, so averaging raw places would reward a country for happening to be measured in small ones. Dividing each place by its own field removes the size and leaves only the showing.
- The shares are averaged, plainly. One key, one vote — no key is weighted above another, because any weighting would be this site’s opinion presented as a measurement. Countries are then put in order by that average, and the average itself is never published. It is our arithmetic with nothing anchoring it, so printing it would invite it to be read as a measurement somebody made. The position it produces, the band, and the keys it was built from are all published instead — every one of them checkable against the tables on this page.
- A country needs 2 of this topic’s 3 keys — half, rounded up, and never fewer than 2. A standing built from one reading, printed beside one built from four, is two different things sharing a column heading. 192 countries clear the bar here.
- A key has to earn its vote every edition. It must measure at least 120 countries (below that it starts measuring who was surveyed rather than the world), it must not have more than 10% of its field tied at either end, and it must not repeat another key in the same topic — Spearman correlation above 0.92 counts as repeating. A topic needs at least 2 surviving keys to place anyone at all; this one has 3.
- A standing is relative, and the grouping is ours. It says where a country places against the others measured alongside it, so it moves when they move. The publishers listed on this page did not agree to be read together, and each measures its subject its own way: the underlying numbers are theirs, the ordering on top is this site’s — the same method as the rest of the Country Index, applied to one subject instead of all of them.
The key statistics and their licences
- World Risk Index — Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr University Bochum, CC BY 4.0
- INFORM Risk Index — European Commission Joint Research Centre, with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, CC BY 4.0 (via the European Commission's reuse policy)
- Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN) — Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame, CC BY 3.0 Unported
The other 10 statistics on this page come from 6 publishers, each named beside its numbers, with every edition and licence on the datasets pages.
The standing itself is part of the Country Index 2026, published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photographs
Algeria’s banner and the countries placed highest, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Algeria (banner) — Daggett.fr derivative work: JamesA, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Liechtenstein — Guido Radig,Inkey, CC BY 3.0
- Luxembourg — Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Switzerland — Simon Koopmann derivative work: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 2.0 de
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Algeria: Risk & Resilience — standing and statistics, Country Index 2026. https://nationsinquiry.com/countries/algeria/risk