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Tunisia

Aeronautics, textiles and a serious medical sector — priced for Tunisians.

4/5
ingredients confirmed
Still unknown: tuition
Living
30.8% of US prices
A comparison of prices, not a budget: it says what things cost here against the United States, not what a month will cost you. Compared at country level, so capital cities and large metros run higher. The price level prices the basket residents buy, and a foreign renter cannot reach the cheap end of local housing — poorer countries may still sit too low here.
Field reputation
Regionally credible
Industry access
An employer, and the same labour-market test
Safety
1.947 · 77th of 163
Seventy-seventh globally, and the single largest improvement recorded in this edition — every indicator either improved or held

More is being checked.

Where these figures came from

One row per ingredient. Open any of them for the source, how far we trust it, and when we last checked.

TuitionNo data yet

No figure recorded. At tier 1 the Agence Tunisienne de la Formation Professionnelle publishes its intake calendar and its centres but no fee schedule of any kind, for nationals or foreigners; at tier 2 no individual centre publishes a rate; at tier 3 nothing usable is in circulation. See the Pathoff method, section 14-5.

Confidence
no figure
Living30.8% of US prices

World Bank, 2024, CC BY 4.0: the PPP conversion factor for household consumption is 0.9574 local currency units per international dollar, against an official exchange rate of 3.1075 to the US dollar. Their ratio, 0.308, is the price level against the United States, whose own ratio is 1 by construction. Both figures are theirs; the division is ours. See the Pathoff method, section 12.

A comparison of prices, not a budget: it says what things cost here against the United States, not what a month will cost you. Compared at country level, so capital cities and large metros run higher. The price level prices the basket residents buy, and a foreign renter cannot reach the cheap end of local housing — poorer countries may still sit too low here.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Field reputationRegionally credible

Pathoff education rubric (the Pathoff method, section 9-2), special band "Regionally credible": Aerospace and health-sector training here serves industries that international companies genuinely built in Tunisia, which gives it standing across the Maghreb and in francophone Africa. At the foot of the band because outside that region no institution is a name.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Industry accessAn employer, and the same labour-market test

Pathoff outcome rubric (the Pathoff method, section 10-3), special outcome band "A route you cannot plan around": Judged on its own and it lands with the degree route, because the contract approval and its Tunisian-first requirement are the same instrument whatever the qualification.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Rule
No change known to us
Last checked
2026-09
Safety1.947 · 77th of 163

Global Peace Index 2026, Institute for Economics and Peace: score 1.947, ranked 77 of 163. Both figures are theirs; we publish them as they are.

Seventy-seventh globally, and the single largest improvement recorded in this edition — every indicator either improved or held

Confidence
printed in the source

What it is like here

Tunisia trains for industries it actually has: aerospace subcontracting near Tunis, textiles, and a private health sector that treats patients from across North Africa and southern Europe. The state vocational agency runs the training at scale for Tunisians, and publishes nothing at all about what a foreigner would pay.

How the process works

1

Ask the centre whether it admits foreigners at all

The system is built around Tunisian trainees and publishes no price for anyone.

Timing not confirmed

Where the training is

Tunis / Mghira
The aerospace subcontracting cluster and its training centres

Open any ingredient above to see where its figure came from, how far we trust it and when we last checked. Nothing here is a substitute for the official source. Last reviewed 2026-09-04.

Photograph of Tunisia by Habib M'henni, licensed CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.