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Land

Size, shape and altitude

Total area

How big is it, really?

South Korea fits inside Algeria 24 times

Algeria: 2,381,740 km² (2024) · South Korea: 100,460 km² (2024)

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Coastline

How much coast is there?

South Korea’s coastline is 2.4 times as long as Algeria’s

Algeria: 998 km (2026 edition) · South Korea: 2,413 km (2026 edition)

Highest point

How high can you climb?

Algeria’s highest peak towers 958 m above South Korea’s

Algeria: 2,908 m (2026 edition) · South Korea: 1,950 m (2026 edition)

Farmland

How much of the land is farmed?

Farmland covers 17% of Algeria, versus 16% of South Korea

Algeria: 17.3% (2024) · South Korea: 16% (2024)

How far apart are they?

People

Who lives there, and how closely

Population

How many people live there?

South Korea has 9% more people than Algeria

Algeria: 47.4 million (2025) · South Korea: 51.7 million (2025)

Population density

How crowded is it?

South Korea is 27 times as densely populated as Algeria

Algeria: 20 per km² (2025) · South Korea: 530 per km² (2025)

Height of men

How tall are the men?

South Korea and Algeria are practically level

Algeria: 175 cm (2019) · South Korea: 175.5 cm (2019)

Height of women

How tall are the women?

Women in South Korea are 0.9 cm taller than in Algeria

Algeria: 162.4 cm (2019) · South Korea: 163.2 cm (2019)

Median age

How old is the typical person?

The typical person in South Korea is 16 years older than in Algeria

Algeria: 28.2 years (2023) · South Korea: 44.5 years (2023)

Fertility rate

How many children per woman?

Women in Algeria have 2.0 more children on average than in South Korea

Algeria: 2.72 children per woman (2024) · South Korea: 0.75 children per woman (2024)

Aged 65 and over

How many people are 65 or older?

20% of people in South Korea are 65 or older, versus 6.8% in Algeria

Algeria: 6.8% (2025) · South Korea: 20.3% (2025)

Refugees hosted per 1,000 residents

How many refugees does it host?

Algeria hosts 45 times as many refugees per resident as South Korea

Algeria: 3.8 per 1,000 (2025) · South Korea: 0.1 per 1,000 (2025)

Nobel laureates per 10 million people

How many Nobel laureates were born there?

South Korea has produced 0.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Algeria 0.4

Algeria: 0.4 (2026) · South Korea: 0.6 (2026)

Official languages

How many official languages?

Algeria and South Korea are practically level

Algeria: 1 (2026) · South Korea: 1 (2026)

What shape is the population?

Money

What an economy looks like per person

Economy size (GDP)

How big is the economy?

South Korea’s economy is 6.5 times the size of Algeria’s

Algeria: $287 billion (2025) · South Korea: $1.87 trillion (2025)

GDP per person (PPP)

How much is produced per person?

South Korea produces 3.4 times as much per person as Algeria

Algeria: Int$18,586 (2025) · South Korea: Int$63,125 (2025)

Income inequality (Gini)

How evenly is income shared?

Algeria: no data · South Korea: 32.9 (2021)

Extreme poverty ($3.00 a day)

How many live on less than $3 a day?

Algeria: no data · South Korea: 0.1% (2021)

Unemployment

How many people are looking for work?

Unemployment is 12% in Algeria, versus 2.7% in South Korea

Algeria: 11.6% (2025) · South Korea: 2.7% (2025)

Military spending

How much goes to the military?

Algeria spends 8.8% of its GDP on the military, South Korea 2.6%

Algeria: 8.8% (2025) · South Korea: 2.6% (2025)

Tax revenue (central government)

How much does the central government collect in tax?

Algeria: no data · South Korea: 13.3% (2024)

Price level (US = 100)

How expensive is it?

South Korea’s price level (US = 100) is 1.8× Algeria’s

Algeria: 33% (2025) · South Korea: 57% (2025)

Health

Long lives, small beginnings

Health spending per person

How much is spent on health?

South Korea spends 13 times as much on health per person as Algeria

Algeria: $233 (2023) · South Korea: $3,137 (2024)

Life expectancy

How long do people live?

People in South Korea live 7.2 years longer than in Algeria

Algeria: 76.5 years (2024) · South Korea: 83.6 years (2024)

Infant mortality

How many babies don’t reach their first birthday?

A baby in Algeria is 8.5 times as likely to die before turning one as in South Korea

Algeria: 19.5 per 1,000 (2024) · South Korea: 2.3 per 1,000 (2024)

Doctors

How many doctors are there?

South Korea has 57% more doctors per person than Algeria

Algeria: 1.7 per 1,000 (2022) · South Korea: 2.6 per 1,000 (2022)

Hospital beds

How many hospital beds are there?

South Korea has 8 times as many hospital beds per person as Algeria

Algeria: 1.6 per 1,000 (2017) · South Korea: 12.8 per 1,000 (2022)

Suicide rate

How common is suicide?

The suicide rate in South Korea is 7.3 times that in Algeria

Algeria: 3.2 per 100k (2023) · South Korea: 23.4 per 100k (2023)

Adult obesity

How common is obesity?

24% of adults in Algeria are obese, versus 7.5% in South Korea

Algeria: 24.3% (2024) · South Korea: 7.5% (2024)

Smoking

How many adults smoke?

22% of adults in Algeria smoke, versus 19% in South Korea

Algeria: 22.4% (2024) · South Korea: 18.6% (2024)

Everyday life

Plates, glasses and happiness

Life satisfaction

How do people rate their lives?

People in South Korea rate their lives 0.33 points higher than in Algeria

Algeria: 5.71 (2025) · South Korea: 6.04 (2025)

Alcohol consumption

How much do people drink?

Adults in South Korea drink 20 times as much alcohol as in Algeria

Algeria: 0.4 litres (2023) · South Korea: 8.3 litres (2023)

Meat supply

How much meat is on the menu?

South Korea has 3.8 times as much meat per person as Algeria

Algeria: 22.3 kg (2023) · South Korea: 84 kg (2023)

Daily calories

How much food is there per day?

South Korea has 34 kcal more food per person per day than Algeria

Algeria: 3,396 kcal (2023) · South Korea: 3,430 kcal (2023)

Working hours

How long do people work?

Workers in Algeria put in 322 more hours a year than in South Korea

Algeria: 2,232 hours (2023) · South Korea: 1,910 hours (2023)

Years of schooling

How long do people go to school?

Adults in South Korea went to school 5.3 years longer than in Algeria

Algeria: 7.4 years (2023) · South Korea: 12.7 years (2023)

Tourists per resident

How many tourists visit?

Algeria: no data · South Korea: 0.32 (2024)

World Heritage sites

How many World Heritage sites?

South Korea has 10 more World Heritage sites than Algeria (17 against 7)

Algeria: 7 (2026) · South Korea: 17 (2026)

Olympic medals (all time)

How many Olympic medals has it won?

South Korea has won 409 Olympic medals, Algeria 20

Algeria: 20 (2026 edition) · South Korea: 409 (2026 edition)

Connected

Online, electrified, urban

Internet users

How many people are online?

98% of people in South Korea are online, versus 77% in Algeria

Algeria: 77% (2024) · South Korea: 98% (2024)

Fixed broadband download speed

How fast is home internet?

Home internet in South Korea is 80% faster than in Algeria

Algeria: 165 Mbps (2026) · South Korea: 298 Mbps (2026)

Access to electricity

Who has electricity at home?

Algeria and South Korea are practically level

Algeria: 100% (2024) · South Korea: 100% (2024)

Urban population

How many live in cities?

81% of people in South Korea live in cities, versus 76% in Algeria

Algeria: 76% (2025) · South Korea: 81% (2025)

Mobile subscriptions

How many phones per person?

South Korea has 173 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Algeria 115

Algeria: 115 (2024) · South Korea: 173 (2024)

Railway network

How much railway is there?

South Korea’s railway network is 8% longer than Algeria’s

Algeria: 4,001 km (2021) · South Korea: 4,309 km (2021)

Air passengers per resident

How much do they fly?

Airlines from South Korea fly 9.8 times as many passengers per resident as those from Algeria

Algeria: 0.15 (2023) · South Korea: 1.48 (2023)

Planet

Air, forests and energy

Forest cover

How much of the land is forest?

Forest covers 64% of South Korea, but only 0.7% of Algeria

Algeria: 0.7% (2024) · South Korea: 64.4% (2024)

CO₂ per person

How much CO₂ does each person emit?

The average person in South Korea emits 2.7 times as much CO₂ as someone in Algeria

Algeria: 4.2 t (2024) · South Korea: 11.3 t (2024)

Renewable electricity

How green is the power grid?

10% of South Korea’s electricity is renewable, versus 1.1% in Algeria

Algeria: 1.1% (2024) · South Korea: 10.4% (2025)

Air pollution (PM2.5)

How clean is the air?

The air in South Korea carries 46% more fine dust than in Algeria

Algeria: 14.4 µg/m³ (2024) · South Korea: 21 µg/m³ (2024)

Where does the power come from?

Safety

Measured risk, not vibes

Homicide rate

How common is murder?

You are 2.4 times as likely to be murdered in Algeria as in South Korea

Algeria: 1.2 per 100k (2023) · South Korea: 0.5 per 100k (2023)

Road deaths

How dangerous are the roads?

Roads in Algeria are 2.6 times as deadly as in South Korea

Algeria: 22.3 per 100k (2023) · South Korea: 8.7 per 100k (2023)

Climate

What the year feels like

Average temperature

How warm is it?

Algeria is on average 11.5 °C warmer than South Korea

Algeria: 24.7°C (2016–2025 avg) · South Korea: 13.2°C (2016–2025 avg)

Rainfall

How much rain falls?

South Korea gets 22 times as much rain as Algeria

Algeria: 58 mm (2016–2025 avg) · South Korea: 1,265 mm (2016–2025 avg)

What does the year feel like?

Between them

People, goods and passports that cross from one to the other

Who has moved between them?
Can they visit without a visa?
What do they sell each other?
Have they met on the pitch?
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Quick answers

Is Algeria bigger than South Korea?

Algeria is larger. South Korea fits inside Algeria 24 times.

Which has more people, Algeria or South Korea?

South Korea has 9% more people than Algeria (2025 estimates).

Where do people live longer, Algeria or South Korea?

People in South Korea live 7.2 years longer than in Algeria. Life expectancy at birth is 76.5 years in Algeria and 83.6 in South Korea.

Are people taller in Algeria or South Korea?

South Korea and Algeria are practically level (NCD-RisC, cohort born 2019).

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