Tunisia: population and ages

In mid-1950 there were 3.61 million people, so the population is now 3.4 times as large.

The UN projects 157,000 births and 78,300 deaths in 2026, 78,700 more births than deaths.

The UN projects the first year with more deaths than births in 2055.

The median age is 33.4, which is 2.3 years above the world’s 31.1.

23% of the people are under 15 and 10% are 65 or older (world: 24% and 11%).

The UN projects that people aged 65 and over will outnumber children under 15 from 2042.

Women have 1.8 children on average at today’s rates (world: 2.2), against 6.7 in 1950.

Life expectancy at birth is 77.1 years, above the world’s 73.8. In 1950 it was 38.2.

For mid-2050 the UN projects 13.1 million people, 5.9% more than now, with a median age of 40.3.

By the death rates of 2023, life expectancy at birth was 76.5 years. People who had reached 65 could expect 17.8 more years for women and 14.9 for men.

On 1 January 2026, there are 15.2 people aged 65 or more for every 100 aged 15 to 64. For 2050, the UN projects 32.1.

For 2100 the UN projects a population of 10.7 million, with a 95 percent prediction interval of 3.8 million to 26.1 million.

Life expectancy at birth is a period measure. It sums up the death rates of one year and is not a forecast of how long the babies born that year will live.

In mid-2024, 63,200 international migrants lived here, 0.5% of the population.

In mid-2024, 715,000 people from here lived in other countries.