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Tunisia

Headline economic indicators for Tunisia, with the most recent official readings.

Prices

Prices — Tunisia
Indicator Value Change
Inflation rate · 5.2% -2.06 (-28.5%)
Consumer price index · 231.5 +11.34 (+5.2%)
GDP deflator inflation · 5.2% +0.23 (+4.6%)

GDP

GDP — Tunisia
Indicator Value Change
GDP growth rate · 2.5% +0.88 (+54.4%)
GDP per capita · 4,656.64 +469.00 (+11.2%)
GDP per capita, long-run history · 10,914 +187.59 (+1.7%)
GDP · 57,502,836,548.09 +6,090,714,068 (+11.8%)
GDP, PPP · 188,111,845,827 +9,576,940,493 (+5.4%)
GDP per capita, PPP · 15,233 +691.39 (+4.8%)
GDP per capita growth · 1.9% +0.92 (+93.9%)
GNI per capita · 4,300 +420.00 (+10.8%)
Agriculture to GDP · 10.3% +0.55 (+5.7%)
Industry to GDP · 22.0% -0.60 (-2.7%)
Manufacturing to GDP · 14.8% -0.38 (-2.5%)
Services to GDP · 62.7% +0.08 (+0.1%)
Household consumption to GDP · 79.6% +0.11 (+0.1%)
Gross capital formation to GDP · 15.2% +7.37 (+93.8%)
Gross savings to GDP · 4.3% -1.22 (-22.3%)

Labour

Labour — Tunisia
Indicator Value Change
Unemployment rate · 15.1% -0.23 (-1.5%)
Labour force participation rate · 45.2% -0.27 (-0.6%)
Female labour force participation rate · 26.5% -0.14 (-0.5%)
Youth unemployment rate · 38.1% -0.77 (-2.0%)
Employment to population ratio · 38.4% -0.12 (-0.3%)
Employment in agriculture · 12.5% -0.25 (-2.0%)
Employment in industry · 33.3% +0.03 (+0.1%)
Employment in services · 54.3% +0.22 (+0.4%)

Money

Money — Tunisia
Indicator Value Change
Broad money to GDP · 85.3% +2.07 (+2.5%)
Private sector credit to GDP · 57.7% -2.93 (-4.8%)
Stock market capitalization to GDP · 20.8% +4.69 (+29.0%)
Official exchange rate · 3 -0.11 (-3.5%)

Trade

Trade — Tunisia
Indicator Value Change
Current account to GDP · -2.3% -0.72 (-44.6%)
Exports to GDP · 46.7% -3.35 (-6.7%)
Imports to GDP · 54.8% -1.50 (-2.7%)
Trade to GDP · 101.4% -4.85 (-4.6%)
Exports of goods and services · 26,826,069,545.48 +1,119,139,426 (+4.4%)
Imports of goods and services · 31,508,376,159.65 +2,564,965,968 (+8.9%)
Trade balance, goods and services (annual) · -3,578,080,954.29 -1,103,543,718 (-44.6%)
Current account balance (annual) · -1,332,843,400.85 -508,911,395 (-61.8%)
Foreign direct investment to GDP · 2.0% +0.51 (+34.9%)
Remittances received to GDP · 6.7% +0.41 (+6.4%)
Total reserves, including gold · 9,343,597,097.76 +103,851,609 (+1.1%)
Reserves in months of imports · 4.5 -0.09 (-2.0%)
External debt to GNI · 77.7% -12.55 (-13.9%)

Government

Government — Tunisia
Indicator Value Change
Government debt to GDP · 42.5% +0.04 (+0.1%)
Government revenue to GDP · 29.9% -1.29 (-4.1%)
Government expense to GDP · 33.8% +0.86 (+2.6%)
Tax revenue to GDP · 20.1% -0.06 (-0.3%)
Government budget balance to GDP · -4.8% -1.16 (-31.6%)
Government consumption to GDP · 19.9% +0.97 (+5.1%)
Education spending to GDP · 6.7% -0.07 (-1.0%)
Health spending to GDP · 8.0% +0.47 (+6.3%)

Demography

Demography — Tunisia
Indicator Value Change
Population · 12,348,573 +71,464 (+0.6%)
Population, long-run history · 11,862 +89.45 (+0.8%)
Population growth · 0.6% -0.05 (-7.4%)
Life expectancy · 76.7 +0.20 (+0.3%)
Fertility rate · 1.82 -0.01 (-0.8%)
Birth rate · 13.4 -0.38 (-2.7%)
Death rate · 6.1 +0.06 (+0.9%)
Urban population share · 70.7% +0.34 (+0.5%)
Population aged 65 and over · 9.9% +0.41 (+4.3%)
Under-five mortality rate · 12.1 -0.80 (-6.2%)
Population density · 79.0 +0.49 (+0.6%)
Net migration · -14,523 +698.00 (+4.6%)
Gini index · 33.7 +0.90 (+2.7%)

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

All data sources

Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

No separate list is published for Tunisia; the database as a whole is cited above.

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