Number of female business owners in Algeria
Algeria: Number of female business owners was 3,565 in 2024. ▲ Rising
Number of female business owners in Algeria, 2014–2024
Source: World Bank's Entrepreneurship Survey and database (https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/entrepreneurship). Downloaded on May 2, 2026.
Analysis
Algeria recorded 3,565 for number of female business owners in 2024. That is the highest value across all 11 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 12.3% on the previous year and up 94.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, number of female business owners in Algeria peaked at 3,565 in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,832, in 2014.
Algeria ranks 30th of 72 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 11 years of available data.
Number of female business owners in Algeria, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1,832 | — |
| 2015 | 1,912 | +4.4% |
| 2016 | 2,082 | +8.9% |
| 2017 | 2,387 | +14.6% |
| 2018 | 2,481 | +3.9% |
| 2019 | 2,290 | -7.7% |
| 2020 | 1,994 | -12.9% |
| 2021 | 2,621 | +31.4% |
| 2022 | 2,761 | +5.3% |
| 2023 | 3,174 | +15.0% |
| 2024 | 3,565 | +12.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 2,164 | 1,832 | 2,481 | 6 |
| 2020s | 2,823 | 1,994 | 3,565 | 5 |
Countries ranked near Algeria
More private sector data for Algeria
- Merchandise trade 33.3% (2025)
- Food imports 20.2% (2017)
- Manufactures imports 73.0% (2017)
- Merchandise imports 50.10 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 1.0% (2017)
- Manufactures exports 2.7% (2017)
- Merchandise exports 45.40 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 957.09 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.1582 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate -7.47 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is number of female business owners in Algeria?
- Number of female business owners in Algeria was 3,565 in 2024, according to World Bank's Entrepreneurship Survey and database (https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/entrepreneurship). Downloaded on May 2, 2026.
- What is the highest number of female business owners recorded in Algeria?
- The highest recorded value was 3,565 in 2024.
- What is the lowest number of female business owners recorded in Algeria?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,832 in 2014.
- How does Algeria rank for number of female business owners?
- Algeria ranks 30th out of 72 countries with data for 2024.
- Is number of female business owners rising or falling in Algeria?
- Over the last ten years it is up 94.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Algeria data come from?
- The figures come from World Bank's Entrepreneurship Survey and database (https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/entrepreneurship). Downloaded on May 2, 2026, published as part of Number of female business owners. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Number of female business owners is the number of female individuals that own at least one share of a limited liability company that was newly registered in the calendar year.