Distillers Country guides / Tunisia
Tunisia
A one-page guide to Tunisia for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Tunis
- Official languages
- Arabic (French widely used)
- Currency
- Tunisian dinar (TND)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 (CET)
- Area
- 163,610 km²
People
- Population
- 12.3 million (2025)
- Population growth
- 0.6% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 70.7%
- Aged under 15
- 23.6%
- Aged 65 and over
- 9.9%
- Life expectancy
- 76.7 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$57.3 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$4,637 (2025)
- Economic growth
- 2.7% (2025)
- Inflation
- 5.3% (2025)
Climate
Mediterranean in the north (mild rainy winters, hot dry summers), semi-arid in the south merging into the Sahara.
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- 18 (Law 2004-75 limits under-18s in nightclubs)
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 1.7 litres of pure alcohol (2022)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Wikipedia - Tunisia (basics, climate); IMF DataMapper WEO (GDP, population, growth, inflation; retrieved 26 Oct 2026); UN Comtrade (HS 2208); WHO Global Health Observatory; Wikipedia - Legal drinking age; Wikipedia: Boukha; Euromonitor: Alcoholic Drinks in Tunisia (Sept 2026, listing); Wikipedia: SFBT. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.