Human Development & Quality of Life in Tunisia
HDI 0.746 · UNDP rank 105 · latest published data
With HDI 0.746 for 2023, Tunisia sits at rank 105 in UNDP's latest table and falls in the high human development group. Two details sharpen that picture. The income component uses GNI per capita of $12,011 in 2021 PPP dollars. Planetary pressures reduce the adjusted index to 0.703, a 5.8% change from HDI.
What sits inside Tunisia's HDI
Tunisia's HDI can be read through four underlying inputs for 2023: 76.5 life expectancy, 14.7 expected schooling, 7.6 mean schooling and GNI per capita of $12,011 in 2021 PPP dollars. The components are inputs to HDI, not independent country league tables.
Inequality changes the headline
In Tunisia's profile, IHDI shows the effect of inequality on health, education and income achievements, the page keeps this distribution measure distinct from broader quality-of-life evidence.
Gender and planetary-pressure adjustments
Alongside the headline HDI, the published data for Tunisia include GDI 0.931, GII 0.238, PHDI 0.703. Reading them together is useful, but combining them would obscure their different definitions.
Quality-of-life coverage is conditional
For Tunisia, the page has no verified OECD life-satisfaction observation to report. No value is inferred when the underlying source does not publish one.
What Tunisia's numbers say together
Tunisia's additional indicators read as IHDI 0.595 with a 20.2% loss; PHDI 0.703 after a 5.8% adjustment; GDI 0.931. Each measure has a different definition, so they are not combined.
HDI for Tunisia stands at 0.746 in 2023, with UNDP rank 105. It is a development benchmark based on three dimensions, not an all-purpose national score. When using this figure elsewhere, keep unlike indices separate because the evidence is strongest when each metric keeps its own scope.
The IHDI is 0.595, and UNDP reports an overall loss of 20.2% relative to the headline index.
The GDI value is 0.931 in group 3; it should be read alongside, not merged into, HDI.
The PHDI is 0.703, with a 5.8% adjustment from the HDI value in UNDP's 2023 table.
Frequently asked questions
What is Tunisia's HDI?
The UNDP table records Tunisia at 0.746 on HDI in 2023, with global rank 105.
How does inequality affect Tunisia's HDI?
For Tunisia, IHDI is 0.595 and the associated inequality loss is 20.2%. This adjustment concerns the distribution of HDI achievements.
Why is there no life satisfaction score on this page?
Tunisia's page adds a quality-of-life measure only when a comparable dated observation can be sourced.
Is HDI the same as quality of life?
No. The HDI calculation does not include every aspect of quality of life. A subjective well-being observation is contextual information here, not an HDI component.
Sources & methodology
Sources for the development indicators and definitions shown above.
View sources used for this page
Primary source for 2023 HDI and its components, plus IHDI, GDI, GII and PHDI where reported.
Report edition underlying the 2023 human-development indices and ranking.
Data note: Reference years are shown with each indicator; unavailable observations remain unfilled.