Tunisia: unemployment rate by gender 2017-2022

In the fourth quarter of 2022, the female unemployment rate in Tunisia stood at 20.1 percent, exceeding that of men by around seven percent. Between 2017 and 2022, the share of unemployed women in the country remained substantially higher than that of men, peaking at 25 percent in the second quarter of 2020. In that period, the rise in unemployment followed the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak on the Tunisian job market.

Unemployment rate in Tunisia from 2nd quarter 2017 to 4th quarter 2022, by gender

Characteristic	Female	Male
Q4 2022	20.1%	12.9%
Q3 2022	20.4%	13.2%
Q2 2022	20.5%	13.1%
Q1 2022	20.9%	14.1%
Q4 2021	21.3%	13.9%
Q3 2021	24.1%	15.9%
Q2 2021	23.6%	15.4%
Q1 2021	23.8%	15%
Q4 2020	24.9%	14.4%
Q3 2020	22.8%	13.5%
Q2 2020	25%	15.2%
Q1 2020	22%	12.3%
Q4 2019	21.7%	12.1%
Q3 2019	22%	12.2%
Q2 2019	22.4%	12.3%
Q1 2019	22.6%	12.4%
Q4 2018	22.9%	12.5%
Q3 2018	22.8%	12.5%
Q2 2018	22.7%	12.5%
Q1 2018	22.7%	12.4%
Q4 2017	22.9%	12.5%
Q3 2017	22.8%	12.3%
Q2 2017	22.6%	12.4%

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Release date

February 2023

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Tunisia

Survey time period

Q2 2017 to Q4 2022

Supplementary notes

The source specifies that, because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, the collection of primary data has been disrupted. Therefore, data for the first quarter of 2021 were collected from basic survey data only. Only those data were deemed relevant in terms of quality and representative of the national situation.
Moreover, it adds that "It should be noted that field collection operations of the national population and employment survey first quarter of 2022 were disrupted by a strike agents. Only data for the month of March and the beginning January 2022 were collected. Therefore, the indicators for the first quarter of 2022 only reflect partially the situation of the labor market at the reference date."

Data have been retrieved from several publications released by the same source.

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