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| ethnic_groups_ref = {{efn|The percentages provided in this infobox are estimates and can vary based on different sources. Ethnically, the [[Arabs|Arab]] population in Algeria is generally reported to constitute between 75%<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=DK |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=joxoDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA201 |title=Reference World Atlas: Everything You Need to Know About Our Planet Today |date=2016-08-01 |publisher=Dorling Kindersley Limited |isbn=978-0-241-28679-1 |pages=201 |language=en}}</ref> and 80%<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=Algeria - History Background |url=https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/19/Algeria-HISTORY-BACKGROUND.html |access-date=2024-08-18 |website=education.stateuniversity.com |language=en |quote=The combined Arab-Berber people comprise more than 99 percent of the population (Arabs approximately 80 percent; Berbers 20 percent), with Europeans less than one percent.}}</ref><ref name=":02" /> to 85%<ref>{{Cite book |last=Naylor |first=Phillip C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ftFbCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA87 |title=Historical Dictionary of Algeria |date=2015-05-07 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-8108-7919-5 |pages=87 |language=en |quote=Most Algerians, approximately 85 percent of the population, today claim an Arab background.}}</ref><ref name="AlgeriaFactbook" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Algeria Ethnic Groups |url=https://study.com/academy/lesson/algeria-ethnic-groups.html |access-date=2024-08-18 |website=study.com |quote=Partly due to the strong association between Islam and Arab identity, there is a fair amount of social pressure in Algeria to identify with Arab ancestry. In fact, roughly 85% of the nation identifies much more strongly with their Arab heritage than their Berber heritage.}}</ref> of the population, while [[Berbers]] are estimated to constitute between 15%<ref name="AlgeriaFactbook" /> and 20%.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Laaredj-Campbell |first=Anne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C7UvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31 |title=Changing Female Literacy Practices in Algeria: Empirical Study on Cultural Construction of Gender and Empowerment |date=2015-12-10 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-658-11633-0 |quote=Ethnically the population is made up of about 80% Arabic and 20% Berber. |access-date=1 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326164800/https://books.google.com/books?id=C7UvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":7" />}}
| ethnic_groups_ref = <ref name="CIA" />
| religion_ref = <ref name="CIA">{{Cite CIA World Factbook|country=Algeria|access-date=20 March 2021}}</ref>
| demonym = [[Demographics of Algeria|Algerian]]
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[[Arabs]] and indigenous [[Berbers]] as well as [[Phoenicians]], [[Ancient Rome|Romans]], [[Vandals]], [[Byzantine Greeks]], [[Turkish people|Turks]], various [[Sub-Saharan Africans]], and French have contributed to the history and culture of Algeria.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=UNESCO |year=2009 |title=Diversité et interculturalité en Algérie |url=http://rabat.unesco.org/IMG/pdf/Diversite_InterculturalitAlgerie.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725111743/http://rabat.unesco.org/IMG/pdf/Diversite_InterculturalitAlgerie.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 July 2013|page=9 }}</ref> Descendants of [[Al-Andalus|Andalusi]] refugees are also present in the population of Algiers and other cities.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WIRWgrbE_fEC&pg=PA22 |title=Modern Algeria&nbsp;– The Origins and Development of a Nation |page=22 |author=Ruedy, John Douglas |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=9780253217820 |year=2005 |access-date=20 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906031345/https://books.google.com/books?id=WIRWgrbE_fEC&pg=PA22 |archive-date=6 September 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> Moreover, Spanish was spoken by these [[Aragon]]ese and [[Castilian people|Castillian]] [[Moriscos|Morisco]] descendants deep into the 18th century, and even [[Catalan language|Catalan]] was spoken at the same time by [[Catalonia|Catalan]] [[Moriscos|Morisco]] descendants in the small town of Grish El-Oued.<ref>{{cite book|last=De Epalza|first=Mikel|title=El español hablado en Túnez por los moriscos (siglos XVII-XVIII)|year=2011|publisher=Universitat de València|pages=32–38–39–444|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D7_VKzdSIzwC|isbn=978-84-370-8415-2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020075020/https://books.google.com/books?id=D7_VKzdSIzwC|archive-date=20 October 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Centuries of [[Arab migrationmigrations to the Maghreb]] since the seventh century shifted the demographic scope in Algeria. The majority of the population of Algeria areis ethnically [[Arabs|Arab]], constituting between (75%<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=DK |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=joxoDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA201 |title=Reference World Atlas: Everything You Need to Know About Our Planet Today |date=2016-08-01 |publisher=Dorling Kindersley Limited |isbn=978-0-241-28679-1 |pages=201 |language=en}}</ref> and 80%<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=Algeria - History Background |url=https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/19/Algeria-HISTORY-BACKGROUND.html |access-date=2024-08-18 |website=education.stateuniversity.com |language=en |quote=The combined Arab-Berber people comprise more than 99 percent of the population (Arabs approximately 80 percent; Berbers 20 percent), with Europeans less than one percent.}}</ref><ref name=":02" /> to 85%<ref>{{Cite book |last=Naylor |first=Phillip C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ftFbCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA87 |title=Historical Dictionary of Algeria |date=2015-05-07 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-8108-7919-5 |pages=87 |language=en |quote=Most Algerians, approximately 85 percent of the population, today claim an Arab background.}}</ref><ref name="AlgeriaFactbook" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Algeria Ethnic Groups |url=https://study.com/academy/lesson/algeria-ethnic-groups.html |access-date=2024-08-18 |website=study.com |quote=Partly due to the strong association between Islam and Arab identity, there is a fair amount of social pressure in Algeria to identify with Arab ancestry. In fact, roughly 85% of the nation identifies much more strongly with their Arab heritage than their Berber heritage.}}</ref> of the population). [[Berbers]] who make up 15%<ref name="AlgeriaFactbook" /> to 20%<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Laaredj-Campbell |first=Anne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C7UvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31 |title=Changing Female Literacy Practices in Algeria: Empirical Study on Cultural Construction of Gender and Empowerment |date=2015-12-10 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-658-11633-0 |access-datequote=1Ethnically Januarythe 2023population is made up of about 80% Arabic and 20% Berber. |archiveaccess-date=261 MarchJanuary 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326164800/https://books.google.com/books?id=C7UvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":7" /> of the population are divided into many groups with varying languages. The largest of these are the [[Kabyle people|Kabyles]], who live in the [[Kabylie]] region east of Algiers, the [[Chaoui people|Chaoui]] of Northeast Algeria, the [[Tuareg people|Tuaregs]] in the southern desert and the [[Chenouas|Shenwa people]] of North Algeria.<ref>{{cite book|last=Marion Mill Preminger|title=The sands of Tamanrasset: the story of Charles de Foucauld|year=1961 |publisher=Hawthorn Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xfCfAAAAMAAJ|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150906031938/https://books.google.com/books?id=xfCfAAAAMAAJ |archive-date=6 September 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>{{page needed|date=February 2013}}
 
During the colonial period, there was a large (10% in 1960)<ref name="Cook">{{Cite book | author=Cook, Bernard A. | title=Europe since 1945: an encyclopedia | year=2001 | publisher=Garland | location=New York | isbn=978-0-8153-4057-7 | page=398}}</ref> [[Ethnic groups in Europe|European]] population who became known as ''[[Pied-Noir]]s''. They were primarily of French, Spanish and [[Italian Algerians|Italian origin]]. Almost all of this population left during the war of independence or immediately after its end.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N8VHizsqaH0C&pg=PA25 |title=Migration and Development Co-Operation |page=25 |author1=De Azevedo |author2=Raimond Cagiano |publisher=Council of Europe |isbn=9789287126115 |year=1994 |access-date=20 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906025429/https://books.google.com/books?id=N8VHizsqaH0C&pg=PA25 |archive-date=6 September 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>