The Philippines’ coastline is 36 times as long as Algeria’s

Algeria: 998 km (2026 edition) · Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition)

The Philippines’ highest peak towers 46 m above Algeria’s

Algeria: 2,908 m (2026 edition) · Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 43% of the Philippines, versus 17% of Algeria

Algeria: 17.3% (2024) · Philippines: 42.7% (2024)

The Philippines has 2.5 times as many people as Algeria

Algeria: 47.4 million (2025) · Philippines: 117 million (2025)

The Philippines is 20 times as densely populated as Algeria

Algeria: 20 per km² (2025) · Philippines: 392 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Algeria is 2.9 years older than in the Philippines

Algeria: 28.2 years (2023) · Philippines: 25.3 years (2023)

Women in Algeria have 0.8 more children on average than in the Philippines

Algeria: 2.72 children per woman (2024) · Philippines: 1.89 children per woman (2024)

6.8% of people in Algeria are 65 or older, versus 5.7% in the Philippines

Algeria: 6.8% (2025) · Philippines: 5.7% (2025)

Algeria hosts 431 times as many refugees per resident as the Philippines

Algeria: 3.8 per 1,000 (2025) · Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025)

Algeria has produced 0.4 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, the Philippines 0.1

Algeria: 0.4 (2026) · Philippines: 0.1 (2026)

The Philippines has 2 official languages, Algeria 1

Algeria: 1 (2026) · Philippines: 2 (2026)

The Philippines’ economy is 70% larger than Algeria’s

Algeria: $287 billion (2025) · Philippines: $487 billion (2025)

Algeria produces 48% more per person than the Philippines

Algeria: Int$18,586 (2025) · Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025)

Algeria: no data · Philippines: 39.3 (2023)

Algeria: no data · Philippines: 5.3% (2023)

Unemployment is 12% in Algeria, versus 2.2% in the Philippines

Algeria: 11.6% (2025) · Philippines: 2.2% (2025)

Algeria spends 8.8% of its GDP on the military, the Philippines 1.3%

Algeria: 8.8% (2025) · Philippines: 1.3% (2025)

Algeria: no data · Philippines: 14.4% (2024)

The Philippines’ price level (US = 100) is 1× Algeria’s

Algeria: 33% (2025) · Philippines: 33% (2025)

Algeria spends 20% more on health per person than the Philippines

Algeria: $233 (2023) · Philippines: $194 (2023)

A baby in the Philippines is 11% more likely to die before turning one than in Algeria

Algeria: 19.5 per 1,000 (2024) · Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Algeria has 2.1 times as many doctors per person as the Philippines

Algeria: 1.7 per 1,000 (2022) · Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021)

Algeria has 66% more hospital beds per person than the Philippines

Algeria: 1.6 per 1,000 (2017) · Philippines: 1 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in Algeria is 3% higher than in the Philippines

Algeria: 3.2 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023)

24% of adults in Algeria are obese, versus 9.7% in the Philippines

Algeria: 24.3% (2024) · Philippines: 9.7% (2024)

22% of adults in Algeria smoke, versus 20% in the Philippines

Algeria: 22.4% (2024) · Philippines: 19.9% (2024)

People in the Philippines rate their lives 0.49 points higher than in Algeria

Algeria: 5.71 (2025) · Philippines: 6.21 (2025)

Adults in the Philippines drink 14 times as much alcohol as in Algeria

Algeria: 0.4 litres (2023) · Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023)

The Philippines has 51% more meat per person than Algeria

Algeria: 22.3 kg (2023) · Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023)

Algeria has 413 kcal more food per person per day than the Philippines

Algeria: 3,396 kcal (2023) · Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023)

Workers in Algeria put in 136 more hours a year than in the Philippines

Algeria: 2,232 hours (2023) · Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023)

Adults in the Philippines went to school 2.6 years longer than in Algeria

Algeria: 7.4 years (2023) · Philippines: 10 years (2023)

Algeria: no data · Philippines: 0.02 (2022)

Algeria has 1 more World Heritage site than the Philippines (7 against 6)

Algeria: 7 (2026) · Philippines: 6 (2026)

Algeria has won 20 Olympic medals, the Philippines 18

Algeria: 20 (2026 edition) · Philippines: 18 (2026 edition)

77% of people in Algeria are online, versus 67% in the Philippines

Algeria: 77% (2024) · Philippines: 67% (2024)

The Philippines and Algeria are nearly identical here

Algeria: 165 Mbps (2026) · Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Algeria have electricity, versus 95% in the Philippines

Algeria: 100% (2024) · Philippines: 94.8% (2024)

76% of people in Algeria live in cities, versus 56% in the Philippines

Algeria: 76% (2025) · Philippines: 56% (2025)

Algeria and the Philippines are practically level

Algeria: 115 (2024) · Philippines: 115 (2024)

Algeria’s railway network is 7.9 times as long as the Philippines’

Algeria: 4,001 km (2021) · Philippines: 509 km (2016)

Airlines from the Philippines fly 2.4 times as many passengers per resident as those from Algeria

Algeria: 0.15 (2023) · Philippines: 0.36 (2023)

Forest covers 25% of the Philippines, but only 0.7% of Algeria

Algeria: 0.7% (2024) · Philippines: 24.8% (2024)

The average person in Algeria emits 2.8 times as much CO₂ as someone in the Philippines

Algeria: 4.2 t (2024) · Philippines: 1.5 t (2024)

23% of the Philippines’ electricity is renewable, versus 1.1% in Algeria

Algeria: 1.1% (2024) · Philippines: 23.3% (2025)

The air in the Philippines carries 60% more fine dust than in Algeria

Algeria: 14.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 3.7 times as likely to be murdered in the Philippines as in Algeria

Algeria: 1.2 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 4.3 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Algeria are 62% deadlier than in the Philippines

Algeria: 22.3 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 1.7 °C warmer than Algeria

Algeria: 24.7°C (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Philippines gets 52 times as much rain as Algeria

Algeria: 58 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg)