Tunisia

AfricaCapital city: TunisCapital metro: TunisPresident: ⚠️ Kais SaiedPrime Minister: Sara Zaafrani Zenzri
2026 population
12.0M
Rank #81 globally
Area
164k km² (63k sq mi)
Metros tracked
13
54% of population in metros
Composite score
16.1
Rank #78 globally

population: 2024 census (6 Nov 2024) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 13 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography13 metros

Tunisia metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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13 polygons

Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.

🏙️ 13 tracked metros
13 metros
🗂️ Governorates

24 entries listed under Tunisia. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

24 total
📋 At a glance
Official language
Arabic
Government
Parliamentary republic
Legislature
Assembly of the Representatives of the People
Demonym
Tunisian
Time zones
Central European Time, UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+216
Internet TLD
.tn
ISO 3166
TN
Established
1956
Highest point
Jebel ech Chambi (1,544 m (5,066 ft))
National anthem
Humat Al Hima

Facts via Wikidata.

📰 In the news1 story
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💹 Economy and developmentLower middle income
Human Dev. Index
#104 / 191
0.746
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#92 / 193
$57.5B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#123 / 193
$4.7k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#110 / 190
$15.2k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#127 / 192
$4.3k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#70 / 194
76.7 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
32.1 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#71 / 194
71%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
0.6%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#106 / 193
79/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#174 / 193
0.5%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#81 / 175
0.60
V-Dem · 2025
Gini index
#67 / 166
33.7
World Bank · 2021
Internet users
#108 / 193
77%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#140 / 185
5.2%
World Bank · 2025
CO₂ per capita
#94 / 192
2.7 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#161 / 186
4%
Ember · 2025

Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.

Alliances & Organisations4 full memberships

Political & Economic

Subregional

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History8 leaders · click to expand

marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.

Saied era

Sara Zaafrani Zenzri✦ Current

2025Present

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2025-presentIndependent

⚠️ Kais Saied✦ Current

2019Present

President

Tenure: 2019-presentIndependent

Democratic transition

Mohamed Ennaceur

20192019

President (interim)

Tenure: 2019 (interim)Nidaa Tounes

Beji Caid Essebsi

20142019

President

Tenure: 2014-2019 (died in office)Nidaa Tounes

Moncef Marzouki

20112014

President

Tenure: 2011-2014CPR

Arab Spring transition

Fouad Mebazaa

20112011

President (interim)

Tenure: 2011 (interim)RCD

Ben Ali era

⚠️ Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

19872011

President

Tenure: 1987-2011 (fled in Arab Spring)RCD

Bourguiba era

Habib Bourguiba

19571987

President

Tenure: 1957-1987 (deposed)Neo Destour / PSD
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#74 · 0.1%
3%5%8%10%190019502000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
Tunisia · share of world power, 1825–2026

The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.

⚔️ Conflicts since 19453 interstate wars · click to expand
Tunisian Army,Tunisian Police,Egypt
Combat deaths:
Combat deaths: 12,336–19,264
Combat deaths: 654–657

Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
12.2m
#80 in the world
Since 1800
15×
from 800k
Peak
2023
at its largest now
Share of world
0.15%
0.08% in 1800
3.1m6.2m9.3m12.4m18001850190019502000
Tunisia · people, 1800–2023 · dashed to 2026 is projected

Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Note that people and share of world can move in opposite directions. A country can grow steadily and still become a smaller part of humanity, which is what happened to almost every rich country after 1960.

👥 To 2100

The UN’s probabilistic projection for Tunisia: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.

Peak on the median
2051
13.1m on the UN median
2050
13.1m
95% band 10.5m to 16.4m
2100
10.7m
95% band 3.8m to 26.1m
2100 against 2025
0.86×
median falling from 2052
Deaths outnumber births
from 2055
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
6.9m13.7m20.6m27.4m1950197520002025205020752100

Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.

estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

1950
168k born · 99k died · +2k net migration
TFR 6.68 · life expectancy 38.2 · median age 19.1
1960
204k born · 95k died · -61k net migration
TFR 7.16 · life expectancy 44.0 · median age 17.3
1970
211k born · 72k died · -10k net migration
TFR 6.43 · life expectancy 53.8 · median age 16.4
1980
225k born · 53k died · -19k net migration
TFR 5.03 · life expectancy 63.7 · median age 17.4
1990
216k born · 48k died · +4k net migration
TFR 3.44 · life expectancy 69.1 · median age 20.0
2000
162k born · 49k died · -6k net migration
TFR 2.03 · life expectancy 72.6 · median age 23.4
2010
193k born · 60k died · -14k net migration
TFR 2.08 · life expectancy 74.4 · median age 27.8
2020
189k born · 80k died · -19k net migration
TFR 2.00 · life expectancy 75.0 · median age 31.1
Show all 16 decades
2030
146k born · 85k died · -18k net migration
TFR 1.75 · life expectancy 77.9 · median age 35.1
2040
150k born · 106k died · -18k net migration
TFR 1.72 · life expectancy 79.8 · median age 38.2
2050
146k born · 125k died · -16k net migration
TFR 1.70 · life expectancy 81.5 · median age 40.3
2060
118k born · 140k died · -16k net migration
TFR 1.69 · life expectancy 83.1 · median age 43.9
2070
113k born · 151k died · -15k net migration
TFR 1.69 · life expectancy 84.6 · median age 47.1
2080
110k born · 153k died · -14k net migration
TFR 1.68 · life expectancy 85.9 · median age 48.1
2090
94k born · 146k died · -13k net migration
TFR 1.68 · life expectancy 87.2 · median age 48.8
2100
85k born · 149k died · -12k net migration
TFR 1.67 · life expectancy 88.3 · median age 50.7

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Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.

🏆 National Teams

Tunisia on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.

National Teams Champions

Every major championship won by Tunisia's national teams, newest first. 1 in total.

2004· 2004-02-14