Algeria or Guinea
Two countries side by side across the same rows as the full comparison. A dash means the value is missing: fields are not filled with guesses. about the data
| Algeria | Guinea | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | 7 years | — |
| Partner can work | — | — |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | no trouble | no trouble |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | no | no |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 209 · estimate | $ 733 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 21,4 | $ 39,2 |
| Life expectancy | 76.47 | 60.9 |
| Homicides/100k | 1.38 | — |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Algeria — 28, Guinea — 10. Types present in both: work, study and family. Guinea adds: investment.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Algeria: fees range from 1,000 to 70,000 DZD. Routes with a published decision deadline: 3; the shortest is 2 days. Guinea: every route that publishes a fee charges nothing.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Algeria after 7 years, Guinea after 10 years. Citizenship: Algeria after 7 years; the other country publishes no term.
Algeria in brief
Algeria combines high seismicity and very high youth unemployment with cheap transport and fuel. On the World Bank scale from −2.5 to +2.5, political stability stands at −0.69, rule of law at −0.70, control of corruption at −0.59 and government effectiveness at −0.25 — governance scores noticeably better than most of the region. Life expectancy is 76.47 years, health spending 233.38 dollars per person per year, basic access to water reaches 92.42 per cent of the population, and mean PM2.5 concentration is 16.54 micrograms per cubic metre. Homicides at 1.38 per 100,000 are among the lowest figures in this set; road deaths run at 18.3. Unemployment is 11.63 per cent and among young people 29.44 — that is the defining feature of the labour market. Overall natural risk is 3.4 out of 10 on INFORM, and it is almost entirely seismic: earthquakes 7.9, floods 3.6, droughts 3.4, against coastal risks at 0.7, tsunami at 1.4 and no cyclones at all. Transport and fuel are cheap even by regional standards: a monthly pass costs 8.15 dollars and a litre of fuel 0.32. The immigration framework is published in full by Law No. 08-11 of 25 June 2008 in the official gazette, and it rests on a separation of three rights. Entry is granted by the consular visa: it is valid for up to two years, but the stay permitted on each entry is no more than 90 days. Residence is permitted by the resident card issued by the wilaya of residence, ordinarily for two years; after seven years of continuous lawful residence a ten-year card may be issued, and the same card goes to the resident's children over 18 living with them. Work is permitted by a separate document: a resident card is not issued to a salaried worker at all without a work permit, a temporary work authorisation or a declaration of employment, and the card cannot outlast that document. A thread running through the law is the principle of reciprocity: it is stipulated for consular fees, for appealing a refusal and for the age threshold alike. What this data does not contain, and why: the law expressly delegates to secondary legislation the procedure for issuing visas, the procedure for issuing the resident card and the conditions for family reunification — so no processing targets and no family timeline are to be found in it. City populations are not given: no official source separating city from wilaya could be found.
Guinea in brief
Guinea has the highest road-death rate in this guide: 37.4 per 100,000, first among the 169 countries with data. Life expectancy is 60.9 years — eighth from the bottom out of 174. Health spending is 59.33 dollars per person per year, twenty-eighth from the bottom out of 167. Basic water access reaches 74.19 percent of the population, and the mean PM2.5 concentration is 27.26 micrograms per cubic metre. Overall natural hazard is 3.7 out of 10 on INFORM and almost entirely water-borne: flooding 5.5, coastal hazards 4.9, tsunami 2.7, while earthquakes at 0.1 and drought at 0.7 are practically absent and there is no cyclone exposure at all. On the World Bank scale, control of corruption is −1.17, rule of law −1.15, political stability −1.04 and government effectiveness −0.89. Unemployment is 5.16 percent and 7.02 among young people — as with its neighbours, that reflects an almost wholly informal labour market rather than an absence of trouble finding work. The internet is among the most expensive in this guide: 81.01 dollars a month, eleventh highest, at a fixed speed of 19.23. The immigration regime is published as a pair — an Act plus its implementing decree, both dated 13 June 1994 — and together they set out the whole procedure. An entry visa is valid for no more than three months, and it may be granted or refused without reasons being given. Temporary stay runs to ninety days, extendable by another ninety. Those who remain are entitled to a Carte d'Étranger Résident valid from one to three years and renewable; renewal is applied for three months ahead. Salaried work in the private sector requires authorisation from the competent body for that activity and an endorsed employment contract, and the documents for it are to be brought along on entry. One feature most countries do not have: residence is not permitted at all without a REPATRIATION GUARANTEE — a deposit at least equal to the price of a return ticket, or a bank guarantee letter; failing to post it means expulsion. Diplomats, nationals of countries with reciprocity agreements, children under fifteen accompanying their parents, and privileged residents are exempt. The settled status is the Carte de Résident Privilégié, granted on one of four grounds, of which only one names a period in years: a business person whose activities are tied to national economic development, after ten years of residence. A Guinean's spouse, or a person with a Guinean parent, obtains the same status with no period at all. The card is issued after an administrative inquiry by the immigration service. What is not in this data: neither the Act nor the decree sets a standard for deciding on the resident card — all their deadlines are addressed to the applicant, and the only one on the authority's side belongs to a different procedure (the receipt on a temporary-visa extension is valid for three working days, after which the person comes in for the answer). The validity of the privileged card is named in neither instrument. The conditions for citizenship lie in the nationality code, which was not read on this pass. The city's population is not given: no official source separating Conakry from the region could be found.
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