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Trade between Algeria and the United Kingdom

In 2024, Algeria exported $1.6 billion to the United Kingdom and imported $268 million. Algeria ran a surplus of $1.3 billion with the United Kingdom, compared with a surplus of $2.1 billion in 2019. The United Kingdom was Algeria’s 13th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Algeria was the United Kingdom’s 56th (0.2%).

Summary

Algeria → United Kingdom
$1.6billion
United Kingdom → Algeria
$268million
Algeria’s balance
$1.3billion

Balance

Algeria’s trade balance with the United Kingdom

Trade between Algeria and the United Kingdom grew 3.6-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). Algeria’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 1.6
  • Imports 0.3
  • Balance +1.3

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$339 million$175 million$164 million
1996$342 million$207 million$136 million
1997$180 million$296 million-$116 million
1998$170 million$269 million-$99 million
1999$260 million$236 million$24 million
2000$637 million$224 million$412 million
2001$315 million$261 million$53 million
2002$467 million$324 million$144 million
2003$403 million$430 million-$27 million
2004$570 million$406 million$164 million
2005$769 million$359 million$409 million
2006$1.7 billion$410 million$1.2 billion
2007$1.7 billion$497 million$1.2 billion
2008$1.8 billion$645 million$1.2 billion
2009$867 million$747 million$120 million
2010$1.1 billion$788 million$287 million
2011$2.4 billion$957 million$1.4 billion
2012$3.5 billion$1.2 billion$2.4 billion
2013$6.5 billion$1.1 billion$5.4 billion
2014$6 billion$1.4 billion$4.7 billion
2015$2.7 billion$895 million$1.8 billion
2016$1.1 billion$746 million$344 million
2017$1.9 billion$607 million$1.3 billion
2018$2.9 billion$418 million$2.5 billion
2019$2.5 billion$431 million$2.1 billion
2020$607 million$256 million$351 million
2021$1.4 billion$299 million$1.1 billion
2022$2.2 billion$234 million$1.9 billion
2023$1.9 billion$262 million$1.7 billion
2024$1.6 billion$268 million$1.3 billion

What they sell each other

What Algeria sells to the United Kingdom

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Crude petroleum$754 million · 47%
    1.1 million tonnes · Algeria’s destinations
  2. Refined petroleum$360 million · 22.5%
    608 thousand tonnes · Algeria’s destinations
  3. Natural gas and LPG$207 million · 12.9%
    363 thousand tonnes
  4. Ammonia$76 million · 4.7%
    154 thousand tonnes
  5. Steel bars$53 million · 3.3%
    82 thousand tonnes
  6. Nitrogen fertilizers$49 million · 3%
    131 thousand tonnes
  7. Hydrogen and rare gases$39 million · 2.4%
    280 tonnes
  8. Coal tar oils$18 million · 1.1%
    33 thousand tonnes
  9. Tissue paper stock$17 million · 1.1%
    13 thousand tonnes
  10. Turbojets and gas turbines$16 million · 0.97%
    19 tonnes · the United Kingdom’s sources

What the United Kingdom sells to Algeria

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Bulk medicines$49 million · 18.2%
    317 tonnes
  2. Turbojets and gas turbines$24 million · 8.9%
    24 tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  3. Valves and taps$12 million · 4.4%
    600 tonnes
  4. Cheese$11 million · 4%
    2 thousand tonnes
  5. Aircraft parts$8 million · 3.1%
    9 tonnes
  6. Soybean oil$7 million · 2.7%
    6 thousand tonnes
  7. 5 tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  8. Liquid pumps$5 million · 2%
    121 tonnes
  9. Computers$5 million · 1.9%
    5 tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  10. Pesticides and herbicides$5 million · 1.9%
    685 tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Algiers to Felixstowe.

The estimated sea route between Algiers and Felixstowe is 1,778 nautical miles (3,293 km) long: ≈ 4–5.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Gibraltar and Strait of Dover.

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$1.6 billion · 87.6%
  2. Air$231 million · 12.4%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

The United Kingdom was Algeria’s 13th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Algeria was the United Kingdom’s 56th (0.2%).

The United Kingdom in Algeria’s trade
2%
The United Kingdom’s rank among Algeria’s partners
13th
Algeria in the United Kingdom’s trade
0.2%
Algeria’s rank among the United Kingdom’s partners
56th

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Sources and methodology

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Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.