Protecting investors, director liability index in Algeria
Algeria: Protecting investors, director liability index was 6 in 2012. ▬ Flat
Protecting investors, director liability index in Algeria, 2005–2012
Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
Analysis
Algeria recorded 6 for protecting investors, director liability index in 2012. That is the highest value across all 8 years on record.
The figure is unchanged over ten years.
Algeria ranks 10th of 51 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| 2010s | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
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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 protecting investors, director liability index in Algeria?
- Protecting investors, director liability index in Algeria was 6 in 2012, according to World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
- What is the highest protecting investors, director liability index recorded in Algeria?
- The highest recorded value was 6 in 2005.
- What is the lowest protecting investors, director liability index recorded in Algeria?
- The lowest recorded value was 6 in 2005.
- How does Algeria rank for protecting investors, director liability index?
- Algeria ranks 10th out of 51 countries with data for 2012.
- Is protecting investors, director liability index rising or falling in Algeria?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Algeria data come from?
- The figures come from World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/), published as part of Protecting investors, director liability index. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Director liability index measures a plaintiff’s ability to hold directors of firms liable for damages to the company, that is, measures the strength of minority shareholder protections against directors’ misuse of corporate assets for personal gain. The indicators distinguish 3 dimensions of investor protection: transparency of transactions (extent of disclosure index), liability for self-dealing (extent of director liability index) and shareholders’ ability to sue officers and directors for misconduct (ease of shareholder suits index). The data come from a survey of corporate lawyers and are based on company laws, court rules of evidence and securities regulations. For more information, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/.