Quarterly total employment in Tunisia 2019-2021, by gender
Men constitute the majority of the employed population in Tunisia. In the third quarter of 2021, the number of women employed in the country amounted to 977 thousand, compared to over 2.4 million men. In the period under review, female employment peaked in the first quarter of 2021 at over one million, while male employment has been constantly decreasing since the third quarter of 2020. On average, there were two and a half times more employed men than women from 2019 onwards.