Tunisia’s population rose to 12.3 m people in 2025.

Neither way is good in itself. A larger or smaller population is neither good nor bad in itself, because the effect depends on whether jobs, housing and public services keep pace. The latest figure, for January 2025, is 12.3 million. That is 0.07 million more than a year earlier, growth of 0.58%. Since 2016 the population has risen from 11.5 million, and the latest reading is the highest in that span.

Why it matters. Each year's addition of about 0.07 million people increases demand for housing and school places. It also raises the number of people looking for work, which matters for a public budget that has to plan services around the total. At 12.3 million, the population is still growing, so the pressure on services builds slowly from year to year.