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Tunisia People 2013

SOURCE: 2013 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Tunisia People 2013
SOURCE: 2013 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on February 12, 2013

Nationality:
noun: Tunisian(s)
adjective: Tunisian

Ethnic groups:
Arab 98%, European 1%, Jewish and other 1%

Languages:
Arabic (official, one of the languages of commerce), French (commerce), Berber (Tamazight)

Religions:
Muslim (Islam - official) 98%, Christian 1%, Jewish and other 1%

Population:
10,732,900 (July 2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 79

Age structure:
0-14 years: 23.1% (male 1,278,494/female 1,197,710)
15-24 years: 17.1% (male 921,865/female 912,243)
25-54 years: 44.5% (male 2,330,785/female 2,450,423)
55-64 years: 7.7% (male 418,274/female 406,342)
65 years and over: 7.6% (male 400,525/female 416,239) (2012 est.)

Median age:
total: 30.5 years
male: 30.1 years
female: 30.9 years (2012 est.)

Population growth rate:
0.964% (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 118

Birth rate:
17.28 births/1,000 population (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 116

Death rate:
5.87 deaths/1,000 population (July 2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 169

Net migration rate:
-1.78 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 159

Urbanization:
urban population: 67% of total population (2010)
rate of urbanization: 1.5% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)

Major cities - population:
TUNIS (capital) 759,000 (2009)

Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.07 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.97 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.96 male(s)/female
total population: 0.99 male(s)/female (2011 est.)

Maternal mortality rate:
56 deaths/100,000 live births (2010)
country comparison to the world: 103

Infant mortality rate:
total: 24.98 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 79
male: 28.58 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 21.12 deaths/1,000 live births (2012 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 75.24 years
country comparison to the world: 91
male: 73.2 years
female: 77.42 years (2012 est.)

Total fertility rate:
2.02 children born/woman (2012 est.)
country comparison to the world: 129

Health expenditures:
6.2% of GDP (2009)
country comparison to the world: 100

Physicians density:
1.19 physicians/1,000 population (2009)

Hospital bed density:
2.1 beds/1,000 population (2009)

Sanitation facility access:
improved:

urban: 96% of population
rural: 64% of population
total: 85% of population
unimproved:
urban: 4% of population
rural: 36% of population
total: 15% of population

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
less than 0.1% (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 158

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
2,400 (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 133

HIV/AIDS - deaths:
fewer than 100 (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 135

Children under the age of 5 years underweight:
3.3% (2006)
country comparison to the world: 102

Education expenditures:
7.1% of GDP (2007)
country comparison to the world: 15

Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 74.3%
male: 83.4%
female: 65.3% (2004 census)

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
total: 15 years
male: 14 years
female: 15 years (2008)

Unemployment, youth ages 15-24:
total: 30.7%
country comparison to the world: 14
male: 31.4%
female: 29.3% (2005)


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Tunisia on this page is re-published from the 2013 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Tunisia People 2013 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Tunisia People 2013 should be addressed to the CIA.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
  a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order






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