“The Economist” study on Social Unrest in 2014 predicted protests in Algeria

A study by the British magazine “The Economist” classified Algeria in the “high risk”.

“The Economist” said Algeria is expected to live a social unrest in 2014, due to the government’s inability to respond to the citizens’ demands of vulnerable groups, primarily concerning housing, employment and the wage increase.

Algeria was classified in the same penultimate ranking, within the five degrees of Morocco and Spain. 

The study found that the reasons for the unrest, especially in the Arab world, including Algeria, are political reasons while the causes of unrest will be the European countries’ economic crisis.

“The Economist” provided analysis of the situation in 150 countries in the world, and evaluated through its study, rates of possible outbreak of unrest and uprisings and social protests that threaten the stability of each country during 2014, which remained a few days before the outbreak, and ended with classifying 150 countries into five groups according to the social, political and economic study of the conditions in each country. 

The study was titled “social unrest during 2014, protesting predictions.”

According to the same magazine, Algeria was ranked in the penultimate place, which is scheduled within the category of “high risk”, which refers to the possibility of the outbreak of protests and social unrest during the year 2014 with high levels, the same classification of Spain and Morocco, Pakistan, Ukraine, Haiti, Brazil and Peru, and other countries.

British magazine’s study classified 66 countries in the category of “low risk” including Australia, Canada, Chile, Germany, Senegal, Malaysia, Sweden, United Arab Emirates and Uruguay.

It classified 64 countries, including France, UK, Kenya, Russia, Italy, Kuwait, Malta, Qatar, South Korea, in the category of “medium risk”.