Earth is ghetto8 billion roommates, zero security deposit1 in 3 households crushed by housing costsOne hospital bill from bankruptcyIncome inequality: above 0.40 and climbingLife expectancy: don't get too attachedAir quality: questionablePolitical polarization: surgingHomicide rates: location-dependentNow scoring 9 metrics — Gini coefficient addedRecommendation: do not move in

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Algeria

Cooked Index
23/ 100
Global Rank
47/ 72
47th Most Cooked
Top 3 Pain Points
  • Air pollution (PM2.5)#22
  • Catastrophic health spending#28
  • Incarceration rate#33
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Overview

Every country has a weak point. Algeria's happens to be political institutions, where political polarization ranks worse than 21% of the 72 countries on this list. Housing policy and healthcare financing aren't doing much better, landing at the 40th and 61st percentiles respectively. Overall, that puts Algeria at #47 — #47 Most Cooked.

Algeria scores 23 out of 100, the global median sits at 27 — so this is 4 points below that line (higher means more cooked). Where the system is holding up: billionaires hoarded (0 billionaires) — better than 96% of countries tracked. None of this is really about Algeria specifically — it's about what's propping up the political institutions numbers underneath.

Sources: V-Dem + Global Peace Index (2025) · OECD Affordable Housing Database (HC1.2) (2024) · WHO / World Bank SDG 3.8.2 (2024)

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