Algeria or Zimbabwe
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 | Zimbabwe | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | 7 years | — |
| Partner can work | — | — |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | no trouble | difficult |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | no | no |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 209 · estimate | $ 539 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 21,4 | $ 29,7 |
| Life expectancy | 76.47 | 63.06 |
| Homicides/100k | 1.38 | 6.76 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Algeria — 28, Zimbabwe — 10. Types present in both: work, study and family. Zimbabwe 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. Zimbabwe: fees range from 100 to 1,000 USD.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Algeria after 7 years; the other country publishes no term. 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.
Zimbabwe in brief
In Zimbabwe the chief hazard is not political but hydrological. Drought stands at 9.4 out of 10 on INFORM — the third-highest figure in this guide; overall natural hazard is nonetheless only 3.9, because there is no coastal, cyclone or tsunami exposure at all, flooding is 3.6 and earthquakes 1.8. Basic water access reaches 67.21 percent of the population, twenty-first from the bottom among the 171 countries with data. Health spending is 62.93 dollars per person per year — thirtieth from the bottom out of 167. Life expectancy is 63.06 years. The air is clean by this guide's standards: PM2.5 at 15.03 micrograms per cubic metre. Road deaths run high at 29.9 per 100,000. Inequality is among the most pronounced anywhere: a Gini coefficient of 50.3, the ninth-highest of 139 countries, though the figure is from 2019 and flagged as stale. Unemployment is 9.29 percent, and 15.55 percent among young people. On the World Bank scale, control of corruption is −1.25, rule of law −1.21, political stability −1.02 and government effectiveness −0.99. The internet is expensive: 65.97 dollars a month for a fixed connection running at 27.22. The immigration framework is published by two sources that complement each other. The Department of Immigration prints, for every permit, a full list of documents and the exact fee: 500 dollars for the employment and investor permits, 200 for the student permit, 100 for the scholar's, and for the spouse permit 300 to extend and 500 for the initial and the permanent stage, plus 300 for each dependant. The visa regime is split into three categories of country — no visa, a visa at the border, and a visa strictly in advance through the portal. The Immigration Act [Chapter 4:02] itself is published by the department on its own site. Two features shape the experience of a foreigner. First: a work permit is granted against an undertaking to train one's own replacement — the employer must advertise the vacancy in a local newspaper, attach the CVs of everyone on the shortlist, and name a local person who will understudy the foreigner. Second: settlement in the law is measured not by a permit but by domicile — ten years of continuous lawful residence, and only time held on a residence permit counts, not time on any other (s. 3(3)); domicile is lost after five years' absence. The Minister, meanwhile, is expressly forbidden to exempt a foreigner from the general requirements in a way that would let them live in the country permanently. What is not in this data: permanent residence exists and its fee is published (500 dollars, or 1,000 for an investor), but the department gives neither a qualifying period nor any conditions — the one permit for which no list is published, so the number of years is left empty here. There are no processing standards for any service: the law sets deadlines only for appeals, and very short ones — three working days to appeal from inside the country, ten from abroad, twenty-four hours to make representations to the Minister. City populations are not given: no official source separating the city from the province could be found.
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This material is for reference and is not legal, tax or immigration advice. Visa rules, tax thresholds and prices change. Before deciding anything, check the official sources and consult a licensed professional in the relevant country.