During the second quarter of 2020, Tunisia's economy contracted by 21.6%, compared to the same period last year, according to the National Institute of Statistics in Tunisia. The weak performance of Q2 impacted the economy's figure for the first half of this year, which contracted by 11.9% year-on-year. News reports suggest that Tunisia's tourism sector could lose $1.4 billion and 400,000 jobs this year. According to data by the National Survey on Population and Employment for the second quarter of this year, the unemployment rate increased to 18%.
