At the end of March 2025, Tunisian public debt crossed the threshold of 135 billion dinars, marking an increase of 7.2% in one year. The Ministry of Finance provides that it will reach 80.5% of GDP by the end of the year, according to provisional figures for the state budget.
At the end of March 2025, the outstanding Tunisian public debt reached 135.1 billion dinars, recording an increase of 7.2% compared to the same period in 2024, according to the last note on the provisional results of the execution of the state budget published by the Ministry of Finance.
According to projections of the 2025 finance law, this outstanding should increase to 147.4 billion dinars by the end of the year, the equivalent of 80.5% of the gross domestic product.
The interior debt represents 57% of the total, or about 77 billion dinars, while the external debt amounts to 58.1 billion dinars (43%). The latter is made up of 68.6% of multilateral loans, 8.2% of loans contracted on international financial markets, and 23.2% of bilateral credits. In terms of currencies, 60.2% of these debts are denominated in euros, 26.2% in US dollars and 6.5% in Japanese yen.
Regarding the debt service, it reached 9 billion dinars in the first quarter of 2025, up 26% over a year. This increase is mainly due to a sharp increase in the reimbursement of the principal, which amounts to 7.4 billion dinars (+38.6%). On the other hand, payments of interest decreased by 10.4%, reaching 1.6 billion dinars between March 2024 and March 2025.
