TUNISIA IN NUMBERS (2007)
GEOGRAPHIC DATA
• Area: 162,155 Km2
• Location: North Africa
• A Mediterranean coastline: 1350 km
• Climate: Mediterranean, 12 ° C in winter and 29 ° C in summer
• Time: GMT + 1
• Capital: Tunis suburb (2,000,000 inhabitants).

LANGUAGES
• Official: Arabic
• Vehicular languages: French, English, Italian

POPULATION
• Population: 10,238 million
• Population growth rate: 1%
• Urban population: 64.9%
• Active population: 34% of the total population
• Class average: 80%
• Literacy rate: 79.4%
• Life expectancy: 74.2 years
• GNP per capita: 4 160.2 TND

INSTITUTION
• Plan: Presidential
• Administrative Organization: 24 governorates subdivided into delegations

CURRENCY
• Currency: Tunisian dinar (TND) TND 1 = 1000 millimes
• Exchange rate 1 TD = $ 0.781, 1 Euro = 0.570 U.S.

ECONOMIC DATA
• GDP growth: 6.3%
• Export growth: 17%
• Rate of investment (as% of GDP): 23.6%
• Savings rate (as% of GNP): 22.5%
• Budget deficit (% of GDP): 3%
• Ratio of debt service (% of current revenue): 11.9%
• Main resources: Agriculture, tourism, mining, industries and other services
• Main exports: Textiles and leather, phosphates and chemicals produced agricultural products and engineering industries.
• Main imports: Raw materials, capital goods, consumer goods.

                                                                                                              
AGRICULTURE OF TUNISIA (APIA Agence de Promotion des Investissements Agricoles 2010)

The agricultural sector occupies an important place in the Tunisian economy, insofar as it ensures food security of the country, based mainly on domestic production and is the main activity in several regions.

Land resources:
    * The area of agricultural land is estimated at 10 million hectares, divided between:

  - Arable land: 5,000,000 ha;
  - Rangeland: 4,000,000 ha;
  - Forests and scrublands: 1,000,000 Ha.

    * The 5 million ha of arable land are divided into uses as follows:

  - Arboriculture: 2,000,000 ha (of which 1,600,000 ha of olive trees);
  - Crops: 2,000,000 ha (including 1.6 million ha of grain);
  - Fallows: 0.7 million ha;
  - various crops: 0.3 million ha.
 
    * The average farm size is 10 hectares (75% of farms are smaller than 10 Ha):

- 471,000 farms in 1995 (11 ha on average per farm).
- 516,000 farmers in 2005 (10.2 ha on average per farm).

    * The area equipped for irrigation: 420 000 ha, of which 75% of facilities with water conservation.

Water resources:

    * Resources available: 4.8 billion m3 divided between:

- Surface water: 2.7 billion m3;

- Ground water: 2.1 billion m3.

    * Resource mobilization: 4.1 billion m3 (2008) split between:

- Surface water: 2.1 billion m3 through 29 major dams, 222 hillside dams and 810 hill lakes;
- Groundwater: 2 billion m3 by 4700 through deep wells and 138,000 tube wells.

 
Fishery resources:

    * The Tunisian coastline extending over 1,350 km;
    * There are 41 fishing ports (one port every 30 km on average);
    * The fleet consists of:

- More than 10,000 coastal boats equipped with engines half;
- 875 boats for fishing on the high seas
    * The labor force in the fishing sector is about 60,000 persons;
    * The production is estimated at 105,000 tons including:

      - 24,000 tons from coastal fishing;
      - 22,000 tonnes of trawling;
      - 51,000 tons of fishing blue fish.

Structure of agricultural production (average for the period 2004-2008):
The pattern of production is dominated by farming, followed by orchards (olives, dates, citrus), market gardening and cereal.