Tunisia Data Book

Last update: August 2025

This page contains information about some of the data available in the FEWS NET Data Explorer (FDE) for Tunisia. This is not a comprehensive guide.

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Summary table

Country food security context

Statistical reporting units

Tunisia usually uses administrative units as their statistical reporting units.

Administrative (admin) units are the geographical areas into which a country is divided. FEWS NET uses the following terminology: National boundary = admin 0, First sub-national division = admin 1 (e.g., states in the United States), Second sub-national division = admin 2 (e.g., counties in the United States), and so on.

Admin 1: Governorates (wilayas). As of 2000, there were 24. 

Admin 2: Delegations (mutamadiyat). There are currently more than 260 in the country.

Admin 1 unit changes since 1980 are as follows:

• 1980: Tozeur governorate split from Gafsa

• 1981: Tataouine governorate split from Médenine

• 1983: Ariana and Ben Arous governorates split from Tunis

• 2000: Manouba governorate split from Ariana

The FDW contains reporting unit relationship tables which define 4 annual sets of Admin 1 boundaries. These begin in 1980, and consistent with the changes in Admin 1 entities mentioned briefly above, include annual sets for 1981, 1983 and 2000. Each annual set describes the statistical reporting entities for a specific time-period, and the temporal and hierarchical relationships of those entities, as of the date of the set, until a new annual set overtakes it due to changes made in the country’s administrative structure. Taken together, these annual sets describe a genealogy of changes in Tunisia’s statistical reporting units between 1980 and the present. 

Crop data

Explore our crop data.

View our documentation on using the Crop Domain.

The crop statistics for Tunisia that are available in the FDW cover a period running from roughly 1980 to 2022.  

Crop estimate data sources

The original source of the country’s crop statistics found in the FEWS Data Warehouse (FDW) is the Ministere de l'Agriculture, des Hydrauliques, et de la Peche of Tunisia.

The source documents reporting the crop statistics are, however, only found at the Agridata website. Unfortunately, each governorate reports its crop statistics separately, on differing schedules, and with different formats and contents. A laborious process is required to find, compile, and fill gaps in a national set of many governorate crop reports.  The occasional crop statistic time-series summaries provided by the Ministry of Agriculture Direction Générale des Etudes et du Développement Agricole (DGEDA) are particularly helpful for the limited crops and time-periods they have been prepared for.

Crop reporting units

The FDW’s Tunisia’s crop data is reported at the Governorate, or Admin 1-level.  Nevertheless, it is apparent in browsing their disparate reports in the Agridata site that Admin 2 data for delegations may be available at each governorate.

Year and season definition

The annual agricultural year (or cropping year) for in Tunisia runs between October and September of the next year.  A two-year notation (e.g. 2023/2024) is often used to identify a specific crop in time. When a one-year notation is used (e.g. 2024) it refers to the second year in the two-year notation, when the harvests occur.

 Example: 2024 refers to October 2023 - September 2024.

Despite the cropping year definition, publications providing statistics for crops in Tunisia are generally described as annual (January - December), reflecting an interest in harvest size, rather than planted area. However, FEWS NET defines the year as in the cropping year definition.

Primary crops

The principal food crops grown in the country are hard (durum) and soft wheat, barley, pulses of various types, and garden vegetables.     

Production systems

Governorate-level crop production statistics are rarely identified by the production system (e.g. irrigated, rainfed, etc.) the crops are grown under.   

Crop statistics context

The country’s source documents provide area estimates in hectares, and production estimates in quintals.

Methodology

No information is currently available.