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Key facts

  • Currency: Tunisian dinar
  • Capital city: Tunis
  • Region: Northern Africa
  • Continent: Africa
  • Land area: 155,360 km²
  • Population: 12,356,117
  • Political Leader: Kaïs Saïed (President)

Latest news (see all)

Foreign Office travel warnings to Brits heading to Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco - full list

Read: Express

2024-04-19

Tunisian journalist gets 6 months in prison for insulting official as government cracks down on critical media

Read: Fox News

2024-04-18

Italy's leader keeps the focus on migration on her fourth visit to Tunisia in a year

Read: ABC News

2024-04-17

Italy's leader keeps the focus on migration on her fourth visit to Tunisia in a year

Read: The Star

2024-04-17

Italy's leader keeps the focus on migration on her fourth visit to Tunisia in a year

Read: Independent

2024-04-17

Tunisia can still be a catalyst for global democratic reform

Read: Euronews

2024-04-09

Tunisia's Saied is a hypocrite on Palestine

Read: Al Jazeera

2024-04-08

Metrics

Business

Central government debt 42.52 % of GDP
Expense 33.76 % of GDP
GDP 46,303,600,000.00 current US$
Inflation 8.31 annual %
Self-employed 25.39 % of total employment
Tax revenue 20.12 % of GDP
Unemployment 17.71 % of total labor force
Vulnerable employment 20.73 % of total employment


Environment

Agricultural land 97,005.00 km²
Alternative and nuclear energy 0.80 % of total energy use
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) 29,293.00 kt
Electricity production from coal sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from natural gas sources 91.44 % of total
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources 0.35 % of total
Electricity production from nuclear sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from oil sources 4.64 % of total
Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric 2.49 % of total
Net energy imports 36.20 % of energy use
Fertility rate 2.09 births per woman
Forest area 7,042 km²
Fossil fuel energy consumption 88.87 % of total
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 704.03 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Median age 28.00 years
Methane emissions 6,653.82 kt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions 3,298.03 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Female Population 6,257,745
Male Population 6,098,372
Renewable energy consumption 12.88 % of total final energy consumption
Rural land area 151,133.00 km²
Rural population 3,680,393
Urban land area 2,877.95 km²
Urban population 8,675,724
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters 7.96 % of total population


Health

Birth rate 16.09 per 1,000 people
Death rate 7.88 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita 221.69 current US$
Health expenditure 6.34 % of GDP
Incidence of HIV 0.04 per 1,000 uninfected population
Hospital beds 2.18 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth 74 years
Suicide mortality rate 3.30 per 100,000 population


Other

Access to electricity 99.90 % of population
Individuals using the Internet 78.99 % of population
Net migration -4,000
Press freedom 2.64


Politics

Armed forces personnel 48,000
Democracy score 6.41
Democracy type Flawed democracy
Military expenditure 2.48 % of GDP
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments 26.27 %


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Source

SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders

Updated: 1 day ago

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