The Minister of Economy and Planning, Samir Abdelhafidh, described as “positive” the economic growth recorded by Tunisia during the first quarter of the year 2025, estimated at 1.6 % by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).
However, he stressed that this rate remains “insufficient” with regard to the ambitions displayed in the finance law, which rely on annual growth of 3.2 %.
During his intervention in plenary session in the Assembly of People’s Representatives, Abdelhafidh indicated that the recorded growth is mainly based on the dynamism of domestic demand, including both consumption and investment.
According to INS data, this growth of 1.6 % is attributable to several internal factors, in particular a slight resumption of private and public investments as well as relative maintenance of household consumption, despite an economic context marked by inflation and the drop in purchasing power.
Tunisian economists, like Moez Joudi, believe that this progression is a sign of a gradual restart of the economy, but that it remains fragile in the face of budgetary imbalances, increasing debt and slowness of structural reforms.
