The draft budget assumes a market oil price of US$70 per barrel for the period from 2025 to 2027 Algeria's economic growth from 2025 to 2026: 4.5%, non-energy sector growth up to 5% GDP: US$278.71 billion Exports of goods: 50.9 billion USD Imports of goods: USD 46.07 billion Trade Balance: US$4.83 billion Balance of Payments: USD 1.17 billion Total budget revenues: about US$64 billion (tax revenues from the oil and gas sector will be about US$26 billion) Expenditure: about US$126.2 billion (10% higher than 2024 expenditure) Budget deficit: US$62.2 billion (more than 20% of expected GDP in 2025). The total deficit of the state treasury will be about 24.4% of GDP against 22.2% of GDP in 2024. In monetary terms, USD 69.3 billion versus USD 59.4 billion.
In addition, it is worth highlighting several major areas of planned budget spending in 2025:
USD 5.34 billion for infrastructure construction, of which about USD 323 million is needed by the Ministry of Transport (including USD 58.8 million for investment projects in the transport sector)
Note from the Trade Mission: Under this item, allocations are made for maintenance and paving projects for motorways and other roads, for the development and maintenance of airport infrastructure, as well as for feasibility studies and preparations for the construction of the Beshar-Port Oran railway line, the extension of tramways in Constantine, the Algiers metro and the rehabilitation of cable cars in Algiers, Blida, Annaba and Oran.
USD 1.42 billion in public investment projects-measures aimed at purchasing important groups of goods and maintaining their prices:
USD 2.6 billion for the Algerian Inter-Sectoral Cereals Office (OAIC)
US$751.8 million in favour of the National Intersectoral Bureau for Milk (ONIL),
US$173 million to support the energy sector
US$661.6 million for desalination projects, and money is set aside to increase the capital of the National Investment Fund (from US$1.1 billion to US$2 billion).
Among the legislative initiatives, it is worth highlighting a proposal to reduce to 50 per cent of the current value of the corporate and personal income tax in the southern regions of the country - Timimoun, Janet, Tamanrasset, Adrar and some others - in order to stimulate economic activity in climatically difficult areas.