TunStat

Tunisia, measured clearly.

TunStat is an evidence-based dashboard and research dossier covering Tunisia’s economy, external liquidity, banks, households, electricity, water, public finances, debt, investment, national companies and major projects. It combines current official data with a sequenced recovery program, a dedicated observatory for strategic state companies and detailed comparisons with Morocco, Jordan and Egypt.

The project is designed to answer nine questions:

• What is happening in Tunisia now?
• Are reserves, banks, government cash and public enterprises creating connected risks?
• What is driving electricity and energy insecurity?
• How exposed are households and water services?
• Where is public money going, and how is the state financed?
• Which major investments are operational, under construction, financed or still in preparation?
• How are Tunisair, Tunisie Telecom, public banks and major state service operators performing, and are government interventions producing measurable results?
• Which economic, legal and institutional changes are practical at each time horizon?
• What can Tunisia learn from Morocco, Jordan and Egypt without treating any of them as an identical case?

Monthly updates

TunStat will be updated monthly as new official releases become available. Each release will refresh the latest macroeconomic, external, banking, household, labor, trade, energy, water, fiscal, investment, SOE and project indicators.

Every value is labeled by status:

• Actual: reported for a completed period, sometimes provisional.
• Forecast: a published projection, not a realized outcome.
• Declared: a registered investment intention, not proof of execution.
• Approved: financing or authorization exists, but completion is not implied.
• Proposed: a TunStat policy recommendation or target.

Website

The website is mobile-first and includes:

• Tunisia’s flag as the site identity and favicon;
• persistent light and dark themes;
• a persistent English/French/Tunisian Arabic language preference across the dashboard, explorer, company observatory and comparison pages, with RTL layout for Tunisian Arabic;
• responsive navigation and accessible controls;
• a current economic snapshot;
• twelve interactive Chart.js chart groups with tooltips, exact-value tables and responsive layouts;
• a seven-part interactive data explorer covering governorates, historical trends, project execution, peer comparisons, government spending, debt service and data revisions;
• a Leaflet governorate map that preserves dated observations and missing regional values instead of presenting gaps as zero;
• a searchable health-reference registry covering every tracked or missing metric;
• three dedicated country-comparison pages with interactive evidence, causal analysis and Tunisia-specific lessons;
• a national-companies observatory with nine dossiers, official figures, disclosure gaps, government actions, interactive 2028 scenarios and company-specific reforms;
• a 39-metric coverage audit that distinguishes current, partial and missing public data;
• reserve, banking, household, water and state-owned-enterprise risk analysis;
• electricity-outage and energy-security analysis;
• public-spending, subsidy, debt and loan breakdowns;
• a status-classified major-project portfolio;
• a sequenced recovery program;
• legal and institutional reform priorities; and
• direct access to source documents and CSV datasets.

After GitHub Pages is enabled, the public site is available at:

https://alabenkhlifa.github.io/TunStat/

Latest snapshot

Evidence cut-off: 30 July 2026

Indicator	Latest value
Real GDP growth	+2.6% year on year, Q1 2026
Consumer inflation	5.3%, June 2026
Unemployment	15.0%, Q1 2026
Youth unemployment	37.5%, Q1 2026
H1 trade deficit	TND 12.57bn
FX reserve cover	97 import days, 3 July 2026
Banking-sector classified loans	14.9%, end-2025
Energy independence	34%, January–May 2026
Dam filling	Approximately 60%, June 2026
Public debt	82.1% of GDP, end-2025 provisional
2025 declared investment	TND 8.36bn

Research dossier

1. Executive summary
2. Current economic snapshot
3. Power system and July 2026 outages
4. Public finance, expenses, debt and loans
5. Investment and major projects
6. Diagnosis: what is holding Tunisia back
7. Short-, medium- and long-term recovery program
8. Legal and institutional reform agenda
9. Implementation, financing and scorecard
10. Risks and scenarios
11. Sources, definitions and methodology
12. Critical metrics and system-risk dashboard
13. Healthy ranges and benchmark methodology

Country comparisons

• Tunisia and Morocco: same foundations, different execution
• Tunisia and Jordan: similar pressure, different protection
• Tunisia and Egypt: similar debt, different crisis mechanics

These comparisons use each country for a specific analytical purpose. Morocco is the structural and investment benchmark, Jordan is the macroeconomic-stability comparator, and Egypt is the fiscal–currency risk comparator. Differences in reporting periods and debt definitions are preserved rather than hidden.

National companies observatory

Open the observatory for current figures and reform analysis covering Tunisair, Tunisie Telecom, STEG, SONEDE, SNCFT, BNA, STB Bank, BH Bank and SOTETEL.

The observatory separates BVMT-listed issuers from non-listed strategic operators. It records government announcements beside the next result that should be verified, distinguishes private passenger-experience rankings from safety assessments, and labels every 2028 forecast as a TunStat planning scenario rather than an official prediction or investment recommendation.

Data and charts

The data/ directory contains thirty-two CSV datasets. The website renders the main dashboard, a seven-part interactive data explorer, a national-companies observatory and comparison charts on three dedicated country pages. The charts/ directory preserves thirteen accessible SVG charts for the Markdown research chapters and non-JavaScript use.

The values behind each visualization are preserved in CSV form. The metric health reference states what healthy, watch, stress, gap and context mean for every metric. Declared investment is never added to realized international investment; approved financing is not reported as completed construction; and proposed targets are not presented as official forecasts.

Run locally

Requirements: Node.js 20 or newer.

npm install
npm run build
python3 -m http.server 8000

Open http://localhost:8000.

For Tailwind development:

npm run dev

Project structure

.
├── index.html                  # Responsive dashboard
├── explore.html                # Regional, trend, project, budget and debt explorers
├── companies.html              # National companies, actions, scenarios and reforms
├── assets/
│   ├── app.js                  # Theme and mobile navigation
│   ├── i18n.js                 # English/French translation and language preference
│   ├── i18n-tn.js              # Tunisian Arabic locale
│   ├── charts.js               # Interactive charts and metric registry
│   ├── comparisons.js          # Country-comparison charts and tables
│   ├── companies.js            # Company charts and scenario selector
│   ├── explorer.js             # Explorer maps, filters, charts and revision log
│   ├── chart.umd.min.js        # Chart.js runtime copied during build
│   ├── og.png                  # Social preview
│   └── styles.css              # Compiled Tailwind CSS
├── src/input.css               # Tailwind source
├── comparisons/                # Morocco, Jordan and Egypt comparison pages
├── charts/                     # SVG fallbacks for research documents
├── data/                       # Thirty-two CSV datasets
├── 00-...md to 12-...md        # Research chapters
└── package.json

Source policy

TunStat prioritizes:

1. Tunisia’s official statistical, ministerial, parliamentary, legal and utility sources;
2. primary World Bank, African Development Bank, EBRD, EIB and related development-finance sources;
3. official national news reporting for very recent events; and
4. secondary reporting only when primary details are unavailable.

See Sources, definitions and methodology for the complete bibliography, calculation notes and limitations.

Important limitations

• Some official figures are provisional and may be revised.
• A complete public real-time outage dataset was not found.
• Current consolidated data on government arrears, outstanding guarantees, SOE cross-debt, household energy burden and water-service interruptions were not found.
• Missing public metrics are preserved as NA with a proposed publishing institution; they are never treated as zero.
• Health thresholds are labeled by type and are not treated as universal rules or automatic policy triggers.
• Project costs can differ because sources use different dates and scopes.
• This project provides economic-policy research, not legal, financial or investment advice.
• Legal texts must be checked in their consolidated official form before implementation.

Repository topics

tunisia · economy · open-data · data-visualization · public-finance · state-owned-enterprises · corporate-governance · tunisair · banking · energy · water-security · macroeconomics · policy-analysis · infrastructure · tailwindcss