03/03/2025

FIPA Tunisia, Invest in Tunisia Agency, celebrated the end of 2024 under the best of auspices. This was confirmed by the FDI balance sheet published at the end of February 2025. Thanks to large-scale extensions, international investment in Tunisia reached 2956.6MTND at the end of 2024, a clear increase of 16.7% compared with 2023, 33.1% compared with 2022 and 57.5% compared with 2021. Manufacturing industries generated 61.1% of total FDI, followed by energy (23.7%), services (14.3%) and agriculture (0.8%).
The Tunisian automotive industry is doing well and continues to drive growth in inward FDI flows. In fact, five major operators in the automotive sector have started extensions to their operational sites in 2024, worth an estimated 1,000 MTND.
The flow of job-creating FDI (excluding energy) recorded in 2024 enabled 856 investment operations to be carried out, with a total value of 2220.8 MTND and the creation of 15681 new jobs.
Of these investment projects:
– 105 (12%) are creation projects worth 243.5 MTND (11%), creating 4340 (28%) new jobs, and
– 751 (88%) related to extension projects worth 1977.3 MTND (89%) which created 11341 (72%) new jobs.

The breakdown by country of the flow of job-creating FDI (excluding energy) puts France in first place with 644.2MTND, i.e. 29% of total FDI, Germany in second place with 340.2MTND and Italy in third place with 306.2MTND.The breakdown by country of the flow of job-creating FDI (excluding energy) puts France in first place with 644.2MTND, i.e. 29% of total FDI, Germany in second place with 340.2MTND and Italy in third place with 306.2MTND.La répartition par pays du flux des IDE créateurs d’emplois (hors énergie) place la France en première position avec 644,2MTND soit 29% du total des IDE, l’Allemagne est en deuxième position avec 340,2MTND, L’Italie troisième avec 306,2MTND.