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Tunisia Unemployment

Tunisia unemployment: latest available value for 2025, historical series from 1990, ranking context and source documentation.

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SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS

COUNTRY: TunisiaINDICATOR: SL.UEM.TOTL.ZSUNIT: percentSOURCE: World Bank Indicators APISOURCE KEY: worldbankDATA UPDATED: 2026-07-13 02:00:00FETCHED: 2026-09-29 04:00:21REVISIONS: 0ORIGINAL API RESPONSE

15,11Latest / 2025

-0,23Change from previous

15,35Series average

176Global rank / 192

Tunisia / Unemployment Unit: Percent (%)

Selected year: 202515,11%

199020252025

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Year	Value	Change
2025	15,11	-0,23
2024	15,34	0,23
2023	15,11	-0,19
2022	15,30	-1,33
2021	16,63	-1,02
2020	17,65	0,50
2019	17,15	1,69
2018	15,46	0,13
2017	15,33	-0,23
2016	15,56	0,16
2015	15,40	0,40
2014	15,00	-0,30
2013	15,30	-1,40
2012	16,70	-2,20
2011	18,90	5,90
2010	13,00	-0,30
2009	13,30	0,90
2008	12,40	0,00
2007	12,40	-0,10
2006	12,50	-0,30
2005	12,80	-1,40
2004	14,20	-0,30
2003	14,50	-0,80
2002	15,30	0,20
2001	15,10	-0,60
2000	15,70	-0,30
1999	16,00	-0,10
1998	16,10	0,20
1997	15,90	-0,20
1996	16,10	-0,10
1995	16,20	-0,10
1994	16,30	0,00
1993	16,30	0,10
1992	16,20	0,00
1991	16,20	0,00
1990	16,20	—

Source methodology

World Development Indicators

Indicator note: Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment.

Source organization: ILO Modelled Estimates database (ILOEST), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: January 17, 2026

Metadata fetched: 2026-09-27 07:06:43. Open original metadata response.

Country-specific interpretation

Automatically derived from the displayed series

Tunisia recorded 15,11 percent in 2025, the latest year available in this series.

Compared with 2024, the unemployment decreased by 0,23.

Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an downward direction.

Across 36 observations from 1990 to 2025, the average was 15,35; the minimum was 12,40 in 2007 and the maximum was 18,90 in 2011.

Tunisia ranks 176 out of 192 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.

The latest value is above the available average for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan.

It is also above the available average for the Lower middle income group.

Labor-market slack and employment pressure.

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