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Tunisia
We offer a data-driven country report for Tunisia that explores
inter alia population, international trading relationships, energy consumption, GDP growth, current account balances, and R&D investment. Additionally, CFI quotes from the Big Mac Index (courtesy of
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Its population in 2018 was 11,659,174 [1]
In 2015, 12.56% of its total energy
consumption was renewable [2]
In 2021, its GDP grew by 3.34% [2]
In 2021 it had a negative Current
Account Balance of US$bn 2.87 [3]
Its unemployment rate in 2021 was 0.00% [3]
Its Expenditure on R&D (as a percentage of
GDP) in 2019 was 0.75% [2]
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What free trade areas or economic unions is it a member of?
Other members:
Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, State of Palestine, Syrian Arab Republic, Türkiye
What trade deals are there between Euro-Mediterranean partnership and other countries and economic unions?
None
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What trade deals are there with other countries and economic unions?
Protocol on Trade Negotiations (from 11/02/1973)
Pan-Arab Free Trade Area (from 01/01/1998)
EU - Tunisia Association Agreement (from 01/03/1998)
EFTA - Tunisia Free Trade Agreement (from 01/07/2005)
Türkiye - Tunisia free trade agreement (from 01/07/2005)
Agadir Agreement (from 27/03/2007)
UK - Tunisia association agreement (from 01/01/2021)
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Banque Internationale Arabe de Tunisie implements strategic projects and initiatives — and meets with enviable success BIAT’s financial performance attests to many positive things: the development dynamics of its strategic
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Interim Prime-Minister Mehdi Jomâa of Tunisia has offered to host the next World Investment Forum (WIF), scheduled to take place two years from now. In Geneva for the 2014 WIF,
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By Masood Ahmed Director of the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia Department “You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man
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