State · 1962 – present
Algeria
A state of 1962 – present — 64 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 31 things within it — wars and battles 3 · unrest and atrocity 6 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 2 · treaties 3 · people 16. Its line of rulers holds 14 people.
- Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 64 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 14
- the President of Algeria
- Most ground
- 2.33 million km²
- in 1976
- Within it
- 31
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of President of Algeria - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benyoucef Benkhedda | 1961 – 1962 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Abderrahmane Farès | 1962 – 1962 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ferhat Abbas | 1962 – 1963 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ahmed Ben Bella | 1963 – 1965 | 2 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Houari Boumédiène | 1965 – 1978 | 13 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Rabah Bitat | 1978 – 1979 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Chadli Bendjedid | 1979 – 1992 | 13 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Abdelmalek Benhabyles | 1992 – 1992 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Mohamed Boudiaf | 1992 – 1992 | under a year | killedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Ali Kafi | 1992 – 1994 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Liamine Zéroual | 1995 – 1999 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Abdelaziz Bouteflika | 1999 – 2019 | 20 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Abdelkader Bensalah | 2019 – 2019 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Abdelmadjid Tebboune | 2019 – in office | in office since 2019 | still in office |
14 rulers, 14 with terms dated as terms, covering 1961 – 2019. Median reign 1 years. 5 of 13 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.66, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Heads of government
The line of Prime Minister of Algeria, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Benyoucef Benkhedda | 1961 – 1962 |
| Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani | 1979 – 1984 |
| Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi | 1984 – 1988 |
| Qasdi Mirbah | 1988 – 1989 |
| Mulud Hamroush | 1989 – 1991 |
| Sayyid Ahmed Ghazali | 1991 – 1992 |
| Belaid Abdesselam | 1992 – 1993 |
| Redha Malek | 1993 – 1994 |
| Mokdad Sifi | 1994 – 1995 |
| Ismail Hamdani | 1998 – 1999 |
| Ahmed ibn Bitour | 1999 – 2000 |
| Ali ibn Flais | 2000 – 2003 |
| Ahmed Ouyahia | 2003 – 2006 |
| Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim | 2006 – 2008 |
| Ahmed Ouyahia | 2008 – 2012 |
| Abd al-Malek Selal | 2012 – 2014 |
| Youssef Yousfi | 2014 – 2014 |
| Abd al-Malek Selal | 2014 – 2017 |
| Abdelmadjid Tebboune | 2017 – 2017 |
| Ahmed Ouyahia | 2017 – 2019 |
| Noureddine Bedoui | 2019 – 2019 |
| Sabri Boukadoum | 2019 – 2019 |
| Abd al-Aziz Jarad | 2019 – 2021 |
| Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman | 2021 – 2023 |
| Nadir al-Arbawi | 2023 – 2025 |
| Sifi Ghrieb | 2025 – … |
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
2.33 million km² in 1972, 2.33 million km² in 2022; at its largest 2.33 million km² in 1982. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
flag, from 1962Flag of Algeria · Public domain .svg/120px-National_Emblem_of_Algeria_(bronze_effect).svg.png)
coat of arms, from 1976National Emblem of Algeria (bronze effect) · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 199923 rows · 2 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Abdelaziz Bouteflika · ruler · 1937 – 2021
- Ahmed Ben Bella · ruler · 1916 – 2012
- Abdelmadjid Tebboune · ruler · 1945 – present
- Houari Boumédiène · ruler · 1932 – 1978
- Chadli Bendjedid · ruler · 1929 – 2012
- Mohamed Boudiaf · ruler · 1919 – 1992
- Liamine Zéroual · ruler · 1941 – present
- Algerian Civil War · war · 1992 – 2002
and 15 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20997 rows · 1 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres
- 2010–2012 Algerian protests · unrest · 2010 – 2012
- Insurgency in the Maghreb · war · 2002
- COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria · plague · 2020
- Hirak · unrest · 2019
- 2003 Boumerdès earthquake · disaster · 2003
- Algiers Agreement (2000) · treaty · 2000
- Black Spring · unrest · 2001
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood64 years
stood longer than 38% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held2,327,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 93% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century3.0
had more wars on record per century than 99% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median1 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 2% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record14
has more rulers on record than 87% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 6 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1952 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1976, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q262 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.