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   Tunisia: the budget came out worse than the IMF forecast in 14 years out of 15

   Each April the IMF forecasts the next year. For Tunisia, in 2011–2025 the budget came out worse than forecast in 14 of 15 years, typically by 1.9 percentage points of GDP. The biggest miss: 2020 — in April 2019 the IMF expected a deficit of 2.9% of GDP, the outcome was a deficit of 9.1% of GDP.

   Source: IMF World Economic Outlook 2007–2026Open on the chart →

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• Tunisia: births are already as low as the UN expected only only after 2050
• Tunisia: 126k babies were born in 2024, 23% fewer than the UN expected that same year
• Tunisia: fertility has been falling since 2015, from 2.31 to 1.83 children per woman
• Tunisia and Syria: similar GDP per person in 1990, 2.8 times apart in 2022
• Tunisia: from 4.36 to 2.49 children per woman in just 10 years
• Tunisia: 47% fewer births than in 1986

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