In 2020, Algeria imported around 1.23 billion U.S. dollars of agricultural products from France, which was its leading supplier of agricultural goods. Brazil and Argentina followed, each providing around 1.1 billion U.S. dollars of agricultural items to the North African country. Cereals, dairy products, eggs, and honey are the main agricultural imports in Algeria.

In 2020, Algeria exported around 72 million U.S. dollars of agricultural products to Jordan, which represented its main export partner. France ranked second, as it imported approximately 49 million U.S. dollars of agricultural items from the North African country. Other main destinations of Algeria's agricultural exports were Turkey, Mauritania, and Morocco. Algeria mainly exports sugar and horticulture products.

Algeria DZ: Imports: % of Goods Imports: Agricultural Raw Materials data was reported at 1.064 % in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1.422 % for 2016. Algeria DZ: Imports: % of Goods Imports: Agricultural Raw Materials data is updated yearly, averaging 2.610 % from Dec 1966 (Median) to 2017, with 46 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 4.309 % in 1974 and a record low of 1.064 % in 2017. Algeria DZ: Imports: % of Goods Imports: Agricultural Raw Materials data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Algeria – Table DZ.World Bank.WDI: Imports. Agricultural raw materials comprise SITC section 2 (crude materials except fuels) excluding divisions 22, 27 (crude fertilizers and minerals excluding coal, petroleum, and precious stones), and 28 (metalliferous ores and scrap).;World Bank staff estimates through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.;Weighted average;Merchandise import shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Algeria Imports: Value: Agricultural Tractors data was reported at 36,872.100 DZD mn in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 51,491.400 DZD mn for 2016. Algeria Imports: Value: Agricultural Tractors data is updated yearly, averaging 23,399.050 DZD mn from Dec 1992 (Median) to 2017, with 18 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 51,491.400 DZD mn in 2016 and a record low of 1,204.100 DZD mn in 1992. Algeria Imports: Value: Agricultural Tractors data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Office of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Algeria – Table DZ.JA007: Imports: by Main Commodities.

In 2020, Algeria imported 19.3 million metric tons of agricultural products, which represented the main items imported. Metals and mineral imports ranked second, amounting to 5.9 million metric tons, while the import of fossil fuels totaled two million metric tons.

Algeria Imports: Volume: Agricultural Tractors data was reported at 40,243.400 Ton in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 61,850.600 Ton for 2016. Algeria Imports: Volume: Agricultural Tractors data is updated yearly, averaging 41,911.400 Ton from Dec 1992 (Median) to 2017, with 18 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 415,317.800 Ton in 2004 and a record low of 9,133.900 Ton in 2003. Algeria Imports: Volume: Agricultural Tractors data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Office of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Algeria – Table DZ.JA007: Imports: by Main Commodities.

Production of beef and buffalo meat of Algeria fell by 1.43% from 140 thousand tonnes in 2022 to 138 thousand tonnes in 2023. Since the 1.22% upward trend in 2017, production of beef and buffalo meat plummeted by 16.87% in 2023. The term "LIVESTOCK" is used in a broad sense to cover all grown animals regardless of age, location or purpose of breeding. Non-domesticated animals are excluded under this definition unless they are kept or raised in captivity. Domestic animals included are large and small quadrupeds, poultry, insects (bees) and larvae of insects (silkworms). Figures on livestock numbers should refer to live animals enumerated on a given day or on several consecutive days. The FAO practice is that figures for an indicated year relate to animals reported by countries for any day between October of the previous year and September of the year indicated. Statistics on live animals by age, sex and utilization generally are not included in the list that follows, even though such breakdowns are extremely desirable in terms of national statistics. For each animal species FAO proposes that information be maintained on changes in national herds during the year according to the following equation: initial herd + animals born + imports of live animals - exports of live animals - natural losses - slaughter = closing herd.FAO defines meat as the flesh of animals used for food. In production data, meat is normally reported inclusive of bone and exclusive of meat that is unfit for human consumption. As reported by individual countries, meat production data may refer either to commercial production (meat entering marketing channels), inspected production (from animals slaughtered under sanitary inspection), or total production (the total of the above- mentioned categories plus slaughter for personal consumption). All FAO annual production data refer to total production.Country statistics on meat production adhere to one or more of the following concepts: 1. Live weight: the weight of the animal immediately before slaughter. 2. Killed weight: the live weight less the uncollected blood lost during slaughter. 3. Dressed carcass weight: weight minus all parts - edible and inedible - that are removed in dressing the carcass. The concept varies widely from country to country and according to the various species of livestock. Edible parts generally include edible offals (head or head meat, tongue, brains, heart, liver, spleen, stomach or tripes and, in a few countries, other parts such as feet, throat and lungs. Slaughter fats (the unrendered fats that fall in the course of dressing the carcasses) are recorded as either edible or inedible according to country practice. Inedible parts generally include hides and skins (except in the case of pigs), as well as hoofs and stomach contents.Among individual countries, one of the following three concepts issued to measure production:A. Production from all animals, of both indigenous and foreign origin, that are slaughtered within national boundaries. B. Production from the slaughter of indigenous animals plus exports of live indigenous animals during the reference period. Derived from meat production as follows: production from slaughtered animals plus the meat equivalent of all animals exported alive, minus the meat equivalent of all animals imported alive. As imports/exports of live animals are recorded by FAO in numbers, not weight, animal type and size are of significance. C. The biological production concept covers indigenous animals that are either slaughtered or exported live, plus net additions to the stock during the reference period. Derived from indigenous productions follows: indigenous production plus (or minus) the meat equivalent of the change in the stock numbers during the reference period. Production is expressed in terms of live weight. Changes in the total live weight of all animals are not taken into account.FAO uses the first concept of meat production in the construction of its food balance sheets and for related indicators. The second concept, indigenous meat production, in measuring the output of the national livestock sector, is useful mainly in the construction of index numbers of agricultural pr

Egypt was the top importing country in four different agricultural commodities in Africa between 2018 and 2020. This comprised cereals, animal or vegtable fats and oils, meat and edible meat offal, and oilseeds and oleaginous fruits. The latter also represented the largest share of African agricultural imports with 50.6 percent. It was followed by meat and edible meat offal, which accounted for 30.9 percent of the share of African imports. Other leading importing countries were Algeria and South Africa.

In 2018, Algeria was the leading African market for French agri-food exports. With more than 1.5 billion euros of imported goods, Algeria was ahead of another Maghreb country: Morocco, with about 440 million euros worth of imported goods.