Tunisia
Capital: Tunis · Lower middle income · Pop. 12.3 million
Source: World Bank Open Data (WHO/UNICEF JMP & FAO AQUASTAT) · drinking water 2024
In Tunisia, 64.98% of the population uses safely managed drinking water — an improved source, located on premises, available when needed, and free from contamination (2024 estimate). That leaves roughly 4.3 million people without safely managed drinking water at home.
Sanitation tracks closely: 79.79% use safely managed sanitation services and 98.54% have at least a basic service (2024).
Tunisia has about 346 cubic meters of renewable internal freshwater per person each year — below the ~1,000 m³ threshold widely used to define water scarcity. It withdraws the equivalent of 92% of those internal resources annually (high water stress).
Agriculture accounts for about 76% of Tunisia's water withdrawals, the rest going to households and industry.
Common questions
How many people in Tunisia have safe drinking water?
64.98% of Tunisia's population uses safely managed drinking water (2024), per WHO/UNICEF data; about 4.3 million people do not.
Does Tunisia have enough freshwater?
Tunisia has roughly 346 m³ of renewable internal freshwater per person per year, and uses about 92% of it annually (high stress).