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Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Legacy

🇩🇿Algeria

Rank #216
Score: 53
About Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1937–2021) served as President of Algeria from 1999–2019. His long rule brought early international rehabilitation and some macroeconomic growth fuelled by oil revenues, but later years were marked by political stagnation, rising public frustration and corruption scandals that contributed to mass protest and his eventual resignation in 2019.

Scoring Breakdown
Detailed analysis of the politician's score.

HDI
Algeria HDI ≈ 0.763 (country context)7/10
Source: UNDP Human Development — Algeria country data (2019)
GDP per capita
Algeria GDP per capita context during Bouteflika era (oil-driven growth)7/10
Source: World Bank — Algeria country data (2010)
Gini coefficient
Country inequality context (Gini series)3/10
Source: World Bank — Gini indicator (2019)
Employment rate
Employment-to-population ratio (historical context)3/5
Source: ILOSTAT — Algeria profile (2015)
Freedom index
Freedom House — Algeria: constrained political freedoms (context)1/10
Source: Freedom House — Algeria country report (2019)
Corruption index
CPI / corruption perceptions — high concerns during later years of rule1/5
Source: Transparency Int'l — Algeria CPI page (2019)

Derived Criminal Score
Multiple prosecutions of associates and senior aides after 2019; Bouteflika himself faced no final public criminal conviction before death (noted controversies counted as notable cases)15/20
Source: AP / Reuters reporting on post-2019 prosecutions (2019)