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Trade between Algeria and Tunisia

In 2024, Algeria exported $1.9 billion to Tunisia and imported $545 million. Algeria ran a surplus of $1.4 billion with Tunisia, compared with a surplus of $1 billion in 2019. Tunisia was Algeria’s 10th largest trading partner (3% of its trade), and Algeria was Tunisia’s 5th (5%).

Summary

Algeria → Tunisia
$1.9billion
Tunisia → Algeria
$545million
Algeria’s balance
$1.4billion

Balance

Algeria’s trade balance with Tunisia

Trade between Algeria and Tunisia grew 5.4-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). Algeria’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 1.9
  • Imports 0.5
  • Balance +1.4

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$275 million$186 million$90 million
1996$219 million$108 million$111 million
1997$128 million$30 million$98 million
1998$77 million$28 million$48 million
1999$107 million$40 million$68 million
2000$153 million$61 million$92 million
2001$164 million$82 million$82 million
2002$156 million$123 million$33 million
2003$194 million$119 million$75 million
2004$219 million$137 million$83 million
2005$220 million$190 million$29 million
2006$285 million$215 million$69 million
2007$355 million$298 million$57 million
2008$1.4 billion$400 million$1 billion
2009$779 million$478 million$301 million
2010$929 million$545 million$385 million
2011$1.1 billion$540 million$598 million
2012$1.9 billion$534 million$1.4 billion
2013$2.7 billion$582 million$2.1 billion
2014$2.9 billion$625 million$2.3 billion
2015$1.6 billion$557 million$1 billion
2016$613 million$583 million$30 million
2017$1.3 billion$440 million$905 million
2018$973 million$424 million$548 million
2019$1.4 billion$396 million$1 billion
2020$911 million$296 million$615 million
2021$793 million$237 million$556 million
2022$1.6 billion$329 million$1.3 billion
2023$1.8 billion$387 million$1.4 billion
2024$1.9 billion$545 million$1.4 billion

What they sell each other

What Algeria sells to Tunisia

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Natural gas and LPG$1.4 billion · 73.9%
    153 thousand tonnes
  2. Electricity$294 million · 15.1%
  3. Cane and beet sugar$82 million · 4.2%
    92 thousand tonnes
  4. Cement$18 million · 0.9%
    254 thousand tonnes
  5. Ammonia$17 million · 0.87%
    31 thousand tonnes
  6. Semi-finished steel$11 million · 0.55%
  7. Float glass$11 million · 0.55%
    19 thousand tonnes
  8. 2 thousand tonnes
  9. Plastic packaging$5 million · 0.24%
    741 tonnes
  10. Toilet paper and tissues$5 million · 0.24%
    2 thousand tonnes

What Tunisia sells to Algeria

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. 3 thousand tonnes
  2. Bulldozers and excavators$29 million · 5.4%
    6 thousand tonnes
  3. Trailers$28 million · 5.2%
    6 thousand tonnes
  4. Glass bottles and jars$28 million · 5.2%
    21 thousand tonnes
  5. 1 thousand tonnes
  6. Trucks$20 million · 3.7%
    2 thousand tonnes
  7. Batteries$16 million · 3%
    172 tonnes
  8. Steel structures$16 million · 2.9%
    5 thousand tonnes
  9. Barite$13 million · 2.5%
    46 thousand tonnes
  10. Steel tanks and containers$13 million · 2.3%
    3 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Algeria and Tunisia traded $2.5 billion in 2024 (both directions together). They trade mostly over land: 92% of the value travels by truck, rail or pipeline.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$197 million · 7.9%
  2. Land$2.3 billion · 92.1%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

Tunisia was Algeria’s 10th largest trading partner (3% of its trade), and Algeria was Tunisia’s 5th (5%).

Tunisia in Algeria’s trade
2.7%
Tunisia’s rank among Algeria’s partners
10th
Algeria in Tunisia’s trade
5.2%
Algeria’s rank among Tunisia’s partners
5th

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Sources and methodology

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Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.