Unemployment rate reaches 15.3% in Q1 2019 (INS)

Tunisia’s unemployment rate reached 15.3% in the first quarter of 2019, down 0.1% compared to Q1 2018 (15.4%) and 0.2% compared to the fourth quarter of the same year, with a slight drop in the unemployment rate of graduates, The national survey on population and employment revealed. For the first quarter of 2019 conducted by the National Institute of Statistics (INS), the total number of unemployed stood at 637 thousand 700 unemployed against 644 thousand 900 unemployed in the fourth quarter of last year. With regard to youth unemployment (aged…

UP 1.1% of GDP in Q1 of 2019 (INS)

The real gross domestic product (GDP) went up 1.1% in the first quarter (Q1) of 2019, compared with the same period in 2018, and 0.1% compared to the Q4 of 2018, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INS).The added-value of manufacturing industries fell 0.6% during the Q1 of 2019, compared with the same period in 2018, following the 9.6% drop in the production of the agricultural and agro-food industries sectors due to the decline in olive oil production.  The added value of the sectors of textile/clothing and leather/footwear and…