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Tunisia

12,348,573

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+71.46K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+26.5%from 9.76M
Life expectancy76.7 years2024
Fertility rate1.82births per woman · 2024
Urban population70.7%2025
RegionMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanLower middle income

A country at every age

How Tunisia is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1423.6%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6466.5%Working-age population
Ages 65+9.9%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate13.4births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.1deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+7.2births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-14.52Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Tunisia look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 13.15M in 2050—7.1% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202412.28M
  2. 205013.15M
  3. 210010.65M
Median age in 205040.3years
Births in 2050146.33Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050125.27Kduring the year
Life expectancy81.5years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19604.27M
  2. 19705.13M
  3. 19806.61M
  4. 19908.32M
  5. 20009.76M
  6. 201010.77M
  7. 202011.97M
  8. 202512.35M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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