Slum population in Tunisia

7.6% of the urban population of Tunisia lived in slums in 2022.

Measure: Urban population living in slums Unit: % of urban population Data: 2006 to 2022 Source: World Bank
Tunisia, 2022 7.6% % of urban population
Change from 2020 0percentage points 2020: 7.6%
World, 2022 23.2% Official aggregate
Position in 2022 103rd of 181 See the full ranking

Slum population in Tunisia over time

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% of urban population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Urban population living in slums (% of urban population), 2006 to 2022
Period TunisiaWorld
2022 7.6% 23.2%
2020 7.6% –
2018 8.1% 19.7%
2016 8.6% –
2014 9.1% –
2012 9.6% –
2010 10.1% –
2008 10.4% –
2006 10.4% –

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is unchanged from the previous available figure, 7.6% in 2020.
  • Since 2006, when it was 10.4%, the figure has changed by −2.8 percentage points.
  • Among the 181 countries with data for 2022, Tunisia has the 103rd highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2022 was 23.2%.

Source and dates

Original producer
UN-Habitat, Urban Indicators Database
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
EN.POP.SLUM.UR.ZS · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2006 to 2022 for Tunisia
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: UN-Habitat, Urban Indicators Database