Official figures show that Tunisia’s exports in the mining, phosphate and derivatives sector posted a notable rebound of 15% in 2025, benefiting from a 17.9% rise in international fertilizer prices. This follows a steep contraction of 26.3% a year earlier, with the recovery supported in particular by higher domestic phosphate production.
It is worth noting that activity in non-manufacturing industries picked up in the third quarter of 2025, rising by 1.8% after a 7.9% decline, driven mainly by a surge in mining sector output (+31.7% compared with +15%). This performance was underpinned by a 48.3% increase in national crude phosphate production in the third quarter, reaching 907,000 tonnes.
According to projections under a government plan aimed at quintupling phosphate production by 2030, annual output is expected to grow by 1.5 million tonnes per year between 2025 and 2028. The increase would be supported by renewed extraction and transport equipment for shipment to processing plants, as well as the commissioning of a new mine in the Oum Lakhchab area, in the governorate of Gafsa.
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