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Unemployment rate in Tunisia

How hard is it to have a job there?

Tunisia's unemployment rate is 15.11 % — #118 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

15.11%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

Source: World Bank open data (GDP growth, GDP/capita, unemployment, government debt)

Unemployment rate in Tunisia over time

18.33 %15.35 %12.37 %18.33 % · 201112.37 % · 20072000: 14.94 %2001: 14.40 %2002: 14.55 %2003: 14.51 %2004: 14.23 %2005: 12.87 %2006: 12.51 %2007: 12.37 %2008: 12.44 %2009: 13.29 %2010: 13.05 %2011: 18.33 %2012: 17.63 %2013: 15.93 %2014: 14.26 %2015: 15.16 %2016: 15.56 %2017: 15.33 %2018: 15.46 %2019: 17.15 %2020: 17.65 %2021: 16.63 %2022: 15.30 %2023: 15.11 %2024: 15.34 %2025: 15.11 %20002012202515.11 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#118 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
5 %
6 of 124 countries
Latest move
▼ 0.23 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
3.23 pp
peak 18.33 % in 2011
Full series
▲ 0.17 pp
since 2000

In Africa: #17 of 21vs median 5.25 %: +9.85 pp (worse)

Among 124 countries

6 of 124 countries between 0.78 % and 1.53 %6 of 124 countries between 1.53 % and 2.28 %12 of 124 countries between 2.28 % and 3.03 %16 of 124 countries between 3.03 % and 3.78 %7 of 124 countries between 3.78 % and 4.53 %15 of 124 countries between 4.53 % and 5.28 %14 of 124 countries between 5.28 % and 6.02 %7 of 124 countries between 6.02 % and 6.77 %6 of 124 countries between 6.77 % and 7.52 %2 of 124 countries between 7.52 % and 8.27 %10 of 124 countries between 8.27 % and 9.02 %3 of 124 countries between 9.02 % and 9.77 %3 of 124 countries between 9.77 % and 10.52 %2 of 124 countries between 10.52 % and 11.27 %3 of 124 countries between 11.27 % and 12.02 %1 of 124 countries between 12.02 % and 12.77 %1 of 124 countries between 12.77 % and 13.51 %2 of 124 countries between 13.51 % and 14.26 %1 of 124 countries between 14.26 % and 15.01 %2 of 124 countries between 15.01 % and 15.76 %1 of 124 countries between 16.51 % and 17.26 %4 of 124 countries between 18.01 % and 18.76 %median 5.23 %Tunisia: ahead of 5 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentTunisia 15.11 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Tunisia is ahead of 5 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Tunisia
116 Angola14.11 %−1.00 pp
117 Haiti14.94 %−0.16 pp
118 Tunisia15.11 %—
119 Iraq15.48 %+0.38 pp
120 Jordan16.54 %+1.43 pp

Unemployment, share of the labour force (World Bank / ILO estimate).

How to read this figure

Share of the labour force without work but actively seeking it (World Bank / ILO harmonised estimate). People outside the labour force — students, carers, the discouraged — are not counted.

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