According to The Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT)tourist revenues and labor income strongly increased at the end of August 2025, while the external debt service fell. Net currency assets always cover more than 100 days of importation, despite a slight decrease over a year.
Tourism and Tunisian transfers abroad grow
The BCT monetary indicators reveal a positive dynamic on currency inputs.
Tourist revenues reached 5.07 billion dinars on August 20, 2025, compared to 4.6 billion a year earlier, an increase of 409.6 million dinars.
Cumulative labor income, mainly Tunisian transfers abroad, have established 5.5 billion dinars, compared to 5.07 billion in 2024, recording growth of 8.5%.
Decreased external debt
Another positive indicator: the cumulative external debt service fell 652.2 million dinars in one year, going from 10 billion dinars to August 20, 2024 to 9.3 billion on the same date in 2025.
Solid reserves despite a slight decline
On August 26, 2025, the net foreign foreign assets amount to 24.7 billion dinars, equivalent to 107 days of importation. Admittedly, this figure is slightly withdrawn from 2024 (25.1 billion dinars and 114 days), but it reflects a situation of still comfortable reserves.
Other financial indicators
The volume of interbank transactions reached 2.8 billion dinars on August 26, 2025, up compared to the 2.2 billion recorded in 2024 (+620.7 MD).
As for tickets and coins in circulation, they established themselves at 25.9 billion dinars on August 25, 2025, against 22.6 billion last year (+13.6%).
