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Tunisia population

Tunisia population now

12,430,807

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 12.3–12.6 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 12,200,431

Year
2026
projection · medium
Population, mid-2026
12.4151 million
95% range, 31 Dec: 12.3–12.6 million
Median age
34.4
Aged 65+
10.3%
2023 | 2024 peak 2051

male female projection · one cell = 2,000 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

TUN · 1950–2100 · in brief

Tunisia in numbers

The UN counts 12,200,431 people in Tunisia in mid-2023, which makes it the 80th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and 0.15% of the world's people. That is 3.4 times its 1950 population of 3.6 million.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2051 at 13.1 million, then falling to 10.7 million by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 3.9 million to 26.0 million.

In the medium projection, deaths outnumber births every year from 2055 on.

The median age was 20.1 in 1950 and 33.1 in 2023; the projection has 51.7 in 2100. 9.2% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 33.5% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2037 at 8.7 million.

By size it is the 80th country in 2023; the projection puts it 88th in 2050 and 99th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Taiwan in 2090. It is overtaken by South Sudan in 2026, Haiti in 2031 and Jordan in 2032.

Population, mid-2023
12,200,431
Rank by population, 2023
80 of 236
Share of the world, 2023
0.15%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023
+0.67% · +81,097 people
People per km² of land, 2023
79
Land area, 2023
155,360 km²
Births, 2023
167,729
Deaths, 2023
74,071
Net migration, 2023
−14,001
Children per woman, 2023
1.83
Median age, 2023
33.1 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023
76.5 years
In a city, 2025
45 of every 100
Population, mid-1950
3,608,986
Projected, mid-2050
13,145,141
Projected, mid-2100
10,652,235

TUN · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

peak 2051estimates | projections05 m10 m15 m20 m25 m30 m1950197520002025205020752100

estimate   projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range   95% range   medium projection. One column is one year's population, read on 1 January; the paper rules divide it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Tunisia, 1950–2100
Tunisia: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
YearKindPopulation, 1 Jan95% rangeBirthsDeathsChildren per womanLife expectancy
1950estimate3,573,092168,25098,5976.6838.2
1951estimate3,644,879172,09998,7426.7438.7
1952estimate3,719,321176,21098,6156.8039.3
1953estimate3,797,049180,33798,9046.8739.8
1954estimate3,877,749184,75099,7486.9340.0
1955estimate3,961,301188,83399,0836.9740.8
1956estimate4,048,957193,16698,9657.0241.4
1957estimate4,116,245196,30197,9487.0642.1
1958estimate4,156,968199,02696,8827.1142.7
1959estimate4,198,466201,90595,7897.1543.4
1960estimate4,243,344203,73694,5027.1644.0
1961estimate4,291,231205,94694,4887.1644.3
1962estimate4,341,324208,45491,5707.1745.6
1963estimate4,396,949210,69989,8377.1746.4
1964estimate4,457,313212,79988,0857.1747.3
1965estimate4,522,426213,63485,9587.1148.2
1966estimate4,600,344215,13383,8577.0549.2
1967estimate4,704,230214,13981,5136.9550.2
1968estimate4,817,709212,78978,5446.8151.3
1969estimate4,942,088211,55476,2976.6252.3
1970estimate5,067,306210,62472,3906.4353.8
1971estimate5,195,487212,10169,8086.2954.9
1972estimate5,327,828214,50967,2666.1956.1
1973estimate5,465,286219,00865,4836.1257.1
1974estimate5,609,198223,68463,4856.0558.3
1975estimate5,760,150228,76661,7765.9759.3
1976estimate5,918,374232,84960,1105.8760.3
1977estimate6,075,614232,86258,3195.6861.3
1978estimate6,236,247229,62456,3685.4062.1
1979estimate6,382,533226,19554,7315.1862.9
1980estimate6,530,305224,53553,4385.0363.7
1981estimate6,682,085229,28152,6535.0264.4
1982estimate6,834,484229,69851,8014.8965.0
1983estimate6,982,801230,62150,7484.7765.7
1984estimate7,124,799232,38049,9884.6666.3
1985estimate7,315,290235,95749,6184.5266.9
1986estimate7,504,516237,31449,2074.3667.4
1987estimate7,696,087232,55248,4544.1068.0
1988estimate7,883,887225,12647,9513.8368.5
1989estimate8,064,994216,84447,6243.5768.8
1990estimate8,238,326216,07347,8883.4469.1
1991estimate8,410,692214,34348,0913.3169.4
1992estimate8,592,962212,42448,4463.1969.7
1993estimate8,772,061209,64848,7283.0670.0
1994estimate8,943,759202,31648,6692.8770.4
1995estimate9,093,137192,76048,4222.6770.8
1996estimate9,229,380183,67348,0582.4971.3
1997estimate9,359,484176,23447,9112.3471.7
1998estimate9,483,055169,22247,8862.2072.1
1999estimate9,600,279163,22548,3982.0872.3
2000estimate9,711,648161,59749,1002.0272.6
2001estimate9,818,223160,15750,0051.9872.8
2002estimate9,921,132159,90550,8011.9473.1
2003estimate10,021,899163,65851,7331.9673.3
2004estimate10,121,365166,04852,7181.9573.5
2005estimate10,210,961169,17653,7951.9573.7
2006estimate10,299,984171,87754,9291.9573.9
2007estimate10,392,836175,10156,1741.9674.0
2008estimate10,490,569179,30557,4341.9874.2
2009estimate10,594,701184,29458,8202.0074.3
2010estimate10,706,660193,14060,3322.0874.4
2011estimate10,825,300205,66462,2582.1974.5
2012estimate10,946,771215,57463,7612.2874.6
2013estimate11,072,522220,10065,4072.3174.7
2014estimate11,210,199221,62766,8672.3274.8
2015estimate11,338,377221,37068,3642.3174.9
2016estimate11,466,151218,51669,6452.2775.0
2017estimate11,591,196211,67070,7002.2175.2
2018estimate11,709,801204,06571,6202.1375.4
2019estimate11,821,228199,73772,4242.1075.6
2020estimate11,928,934189,03779,6092.0075.0
2021estimate12,019,180168,668100,5761.8072.9
2022estimate12,078,065171,17074,6411.8576.0
2023estimate12,160,602167,72974,0711.8376.5
2024estimate12,240,260164,14575,2291.8276.7
2025projection12,313,95812.3–12.4 million160,50876,7511.8076.9
2026projection12,383,18812.3–12.5 million156,97978,2861.7977.1
2027projection12,447,08912.3–12.6 million153,66479,9101.7877.3
2028projection12,505,10612.2–12.8 million150,85381,5261.7777.5
2029projection12,558,87812.2–12.9 million148,34983,3241.7677.7
2030projection12,606,53812.2–13.0 million146,21985,0611.7577.9
2031projection12,649,74612.1–13.1 million144,51686,9861.7578.1
2032projection12,690,09612.0–13.3 million143,44688,9161.7478.3
2033projection12,728,20212.0–13.4 million142,90990,9881.7478.5
2034projection12,764,85611.9–13.6 million142,96593,0811.7378.6
2035projection12,797,16411.8–13.7 million143,41095,2201.7378.8
2036projection12,827,37311.8–13.9 million144,43497,3991.7379.0
2037projection12,857,60911.7–14.0 million145,67999,6111.7279.2
2038projection12,886,51211.6–14.2 million147,210101,8491.7279.4
2039projection12,913,86511.6–14.3 million148,927103,9651.7279.6
2040projection12,940,74611.5–14.5 million150,445106,1421.7279.8
2041projection12,966,98311.4–14.7 million152,014108,2161.7180.0
2042projection12,992,40311.3–14.9 million153,440110,3131.7280.1
2043projection13,018,06911.2–15.0 million154,139112,4271.7180.3
2044projection13,042,53711.1–15.2 million154,310114,4411.7180.5
2045projection13,065,66611.0–15.3 million154,124116,3781.7180.7
2046projection13,086,51211.0–15.5 million153,429118,2751.7180.8
2047projection13,104,97710.8–15.7 million152,345120,1051.7181.0
2048projection13,121,46710.8–15.9 million150,703121,8771.7181.2
2049projection13,133,86210.7–16.1 million148,581123,5061.7081.4
2050projection13,142,42810.6–16.3 million146,334125,2691.7181.5
2051projection13,147,85410.5–16.5 million143,492126,8991.7081.7
2052projection13,148,46910.4–16.7 million140,455128,3281.7081.9
2053projection13,144,99210.2–16.9 million137,392129,8851.7082.0
2054projection13,137,90510.1–17.1 million134,383131,3791.7082.2
2055projection13,124,82610.0–17.3 million131,238132,8341.7082.4
2056projection13,107,5979.9–17.4 million128,252134,1471.7082.5
2057projection13,085,2909.8–17.6 million125,516135,5421.7082.7
2058projection13,059,1479.6–17.8 million122,779136,9861.6982.8
2059projection13,030,0429.5–18.0 million120,369138,5011.6983.0
2060projection12,998,0429.3–18.2 million118,418139,8761.6983.1
2061projection12,960,4859.2–18.3 million116,613141,2201.6983.3
2062projection12,921,1779.1–18.6 million115,136142,5531.6983.4
2063projection12,878,9498.9–18.7 million114,029143,7941.6983.6
2064projection12,834,6508.7–18.9 million113,198145,1301.6983.7
2065projection12,788,9178.6–19.2 million112,525146,4191.6983.9
2066projection12,739,8088.5–19.3 million112,207147,5331.6984.0
2067projection12,690,4078.3–19.5 million112,187148,5561.6984.2
2068projection12,639,3388.2–19.6 million112,237149,6631.6984.3
2069projection12,587,1348.0–19.7 million112,510150,5781.6984.4
2070projection12,533,8257.8–19.9 million112,657151,3931.6984.6
2071projection12,480,3817.6–20.0 million112,842152,1641.6884.7
2072projection12,426,1607.5–20.1 million112,979152,7871.6884.8
2073projection12,373,0337.4–20.3 million113,135153,2311.6885.0
2074projection12,318,3867.2–20.5 million113,205153,3851.6885.1
2075projection12,265,0377.0–20.8 million113,190153,6821.6885.3
2076projection12,210,6866.9–21.2 million112,983153,6911.6885.4
2077projection12,157,4736.8–21.4 million112,465153,6721.6885.5
2078projection12,102,0806.6–21.6 million111,711153,5411.6885.7
2079projection12,044,6196.5–21.7 million110,775153,2371.6885.8
2080projection11,987,3996.3–21.9 million109,826152,5781.6885.9
2081projection11,930,8546.2–22.1 million108,591152,0301.6886.0
2082projection11,875,4466.1–22.2 million107,294151,3551.6886.2
2083projection11,818,0406.0–22.4 million105,776150,7611.6886.3
2084projection11,759,7835.9–22.7 million104,134150,0101.6886.4
2085projection11,701,5975.8–22.9 million102,422149,1131.6886.5
2086projection11,642,6575.6–23.1 million100,621148,4711.6886.7
2087projection11,581,5345.5–23.4 million98,916147,7741.6886.8
2088projection11,519,7725.3–23.5 million97,123147,2301.6886.9
2089projection11,457,9025.2–23.7 million95,410146,6481.6887.0
2090projection11,393,8505.1–24.0 million93,735146,2461.6887.2
2091projection11,328,8175.0–24.1 million92,182146,0671.6887.3
2092projection11,262,5364.9–24.3 million90,997145,8921.6887.4
2093projection11,195,0394.7–24.5 million89,828145,7301.6887.5
2094projection11,126,2664.6–24.5 million88,685145,8491.6887.6
2095projection11,055,4914.5–24.8 million87,746146,1871.6887.8
2096projection10,984,1954.3–25.1 million86,887146,6641.6787.9
2097projection10,911,6614.2–25.5 million86,141147,1891.6788.0
2098projection10,839,8944.1–25.7 million85,650147,8451.6788.1
2099projection10,766,0073.9–25.9 million85,168148,4771.6788.2
2100projection10,690,6543.9–26.0 million84,718149,2541.6788.3
Show the numbers: Tunisia, mid-2026, by single year of age
Tunisia: population by single year of age, mid-2026
AgeMaleFemale
080,36976,780
181,86878,201
283,59079,758
385,34581,325
485,52081,422
589,96885,561
697,72792,830
7101,41896,236
8104,32898,884
9107,824102,186
10110,107104,368
11110,785104,934
12112,530105,956
13110,882103,703
14106,44199,290
15104,85397,627
16102,64495,540
1798,54091,846
1893,81487,638
1989,63283,926
2086,60881,286
2184,59879,709
2282,73478,420
2381,01777,152
2480,33876,585
2580,57277,016
2680,52877,673
2780,23378,326
2881,08379,944
2983,25282,739
3085,91686,120
3189,24890,030
3292,09293,096
3393,27694,702
3492,91294,876
3592,05994,672
3689,82694,298
3787,71093,831
3890,44796,931
3993,401100,546
4093,235101,364
4192,348101,045
4288,89097,661
4385,13293,387
4485,34992,744
4588,53295,481
4688,77195,205
4782,79489,326
4877,99185,014
4977,78684,248
5078,71184,285
5178,10282,958
5274,65078,916
5370,87474,785
5468,22971,298
5568,55470,667
5669,81172,250
5766,46870,376
5861,58066,960
5960,52666,646
6063,27469,308
6166,39371,876
6264,15369,047
6358,16262,594
6454,36958,268
6553,65957,208
6652,51256,430
6747,97051,940
6844,58848,082
6943,90048,069
7042,21847,740
7139,84045,787
7236,45641,822
7331,72536,460
7427,79332,644
7524,92530,362
7621,51527,493
7717,74023,690
7815,05820,782
7913,08418,651
8011,38116,820
819,87515,032
828,54013,241
837,38211,620
846,35210,186
855,4328,942
864,5817,786
873,7706,639
883,0195,506
892,3584,489
901,8163,678
911,3722,965
929902,247
936821,614
944541,132
95289760
96178487
97107308
9862192
9935115
100+37140

TUN · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Tunisia, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

TUN · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Tunisia

On the UN's projection, Tunisia will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2037: 8,749,930 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 8,100,940.

100 aged 15–64
37 children
14 aged 65+

aged 15–64   children under 15   aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 31 years: 2004–2019 and 2027–2041.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100   the same, projected   50 or more

How to read this: the strip runs 1950 to 2100. Coloured years are the ones with under 50 dependants for every 100 people aged 15–64; grey years are the rest, and a hatched year has not happened yet.

How every country compares

TUN · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Tunisia, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Tunisia loses 13,855 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 2,941 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 500 people a year
020406080+

more arrive than leave   more leave than arrive

How to read this: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

Its best and worst years between 1950 and 2023: a gain of 16,021 (1991), and a loss of 61,369 (1961).

In 2024, 63,201 people living in Tunisia had been born in another country, fewer than 1 of every 100 people there, against fewer than 1 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

TUN · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Tunisia

Of every 100 babies born in Tunisia in 2023, 1 had a mother under 20, 71 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 28 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 11 under 20 and 21 aged 35 or older.

1950
11 · 68 · 21
2023
1 · 71 · 28
2050 · projected
1 · 69 · 30

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023
167,729
Average age when women have a baby
31.3 years
30.0 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19
4
110 in 1950
Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100
Babies born in Tunisia by the mother's age
Mother's age19501975200020232050 projected2100 projected
10–148341271111
15–1918,52113,4493,7061,7921,114801
20–2438,16163,69630,64217,15912,4178,451
25–2940,64160,52650,01347,48139,12425,195
30–3434,97343,00945,03853,71349,77227,872
35–3923,61729,74124,97636,14632,78016,381
40–448,99914,3906,40110,5719,8675,194
45–492,3823,6317948601,229797
50–541221972663026
All babies168,250228,766161,597167,729146,33484,718

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

TUN · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Tunisia

In Tunisia, WHO puts the healthy years a newborn could expect in 2021 at 63.6 (95% range 62.9–64.5), out of 74.1 in all. That leaves 10.5 years in less than full health, more than the world's 9.5: a longer life usually brings a longer stretch of illness near its end.

Women

64.4 in full health, 12.4 not: 76.8 years

Men

62.9 in full health, 8.6 not: 71.5 years

a year in full health   a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 64.4 healthy years of 76.8. Men: 62.9 of 71.5. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 66.7.

TUN · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Tunisia

At the end of 2025, Tunisia was hosting 7,909 people who had crossed a border into it, about 0.6 of every 1,000 people living there.

  1. hosted from abroad7,909
  2. Tunisia nationals abroad14,049

stayed inside their own country   crossed a border

How to read this: count the squares — 500 people each, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Tunisia living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 51 people asked for asylum in Tunisia for the first time; 9,074 people from Tunisia asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Tunisia whose claims were decided that year, 6 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

TUN · of every 100 people

How people live in Tunisia

Of every 100 people in Tunisia in 2025, 45 lived in a city, 27 in a town or suburb and 28 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 23.5 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person, coloured by where they live, as the key says. The same rule is used in every country.

How the world's people live

TUN · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Tunisia went in school

Of every 100 adults in Tunisia in 2020, 20 never went to school and 32 finished upper secondary or went further.

20 never went to school 1 some primary 25 finished primary 22 finished lower secondary 15 finished upper secondary 17 studied after school

Compare two generations. Aged 60–64, 49.8 of every 100 women and 15 of every 100 men never went to school; aged 25–29, 2.8 and 1.6.

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2040; those among them who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2070.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every hundredth adult aged 25 or over, from least schooling on the left to most on the right. Counted by the Wittgenstein Centre for 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

TUN · cities · 2025

Cities in Tunisia

Tunisia had 24 cities in 2025, home to 5.5 million people. The largest, Tunis, holds 20 of every 100 people in Tunisia.

  1. Tunis2,473,428
  2. Sfax608,293
  3. Sousse495,877
  4. Hammamet229,253
  5. Bizerte176,615
  6. Gabes161,227
  7. Ksar Hellal140,693
  8. Gafsa129,171
  9. Fouchana121,222
  10. Monastir91,293

How to read this: the 10 biggest cities here in 2025, drawn on a single scale so the bars can be compared. Each is a built-up area on the UN's rule rather than a city government's patch.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Tunisia are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

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Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.