Tunisia’s current account balance fell to −2.3% of GDP in 2025.

Higher is better. Higher is better because a smaller deficit, or a surplus, means less reliance on foreign borrowing or reserves to pay for imports. Tunisia's latest figure, for 2025, is −2.3% of GDP, against −1.6% of GDP a year earlier, so the deficit widened by 0.72 percentage points over the year. Since 2016 the balance has ranged from −10.8% of GDP in 2018 to −1.6% of GDP in 2024. The 2025 figure sits near the top of that range and far above the 2018 low, though below the 2024 high.

Why it matters. A deficit of 2.3% of GDP means Tunisia is buying more from abroad than it earns, and the gap has to be financed with foreign loans, transfers or reserves. For households and firms, that links the price and availability of imported fuel, food and inputs to the country's access to foreign currency. For the state, a wider deficit adds to the need for external financing. The 2018 level of 10.8% of GDP shows how much larger that need has been in the past.