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Ranked the most competitive economy in Africa by the [[World Economic Forum]] in 2009;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.weforum.org/pdf/GCR09/GCR20092010fullrankings.pdf |title=The Global Competitiveness Index 2009–2010 rankings |access-date=16 September 2009 |work=weforum.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101030003958/http://www.weforum.org/pdf/GCR09/GCR20092010fullrankings.pdf |archive-date=30 October 2010 }}</ref> Tunisia is an export-oriented country in the process of liberalizing and privatizing an economy that, while averaging 5% GDP growth since the early 1990s, has suffered from corruption benefiting politically connected elites.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gtz.de/en/weltweit/maghreb-naher-osten/681.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511202245/http://www.gtz.de/en/weltweit/maghreb-naher-osten/681.htm |archive-date=11 May 2011 |title=GTZ in Tunisia |work=gtz.de |publisher=GTZ |access-date=20 October 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Tunisia's Penal Code criminalises several forms of corruption, including active and passive bribery, abuse of office, extortion and conflicts of interest, but the anti-corruption framework is not effectively enforced.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tunisia Corruption Profile|url=http://www.business-anti-corruption.com/country-profiles/middle-east-north-africa/tunisia/show-all.aspx|website=Business Anti-Corruption Portal|access-date=14 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714162225/http://www.business-anti-corruption.com/country-profiles/middle-east-north-africa/tunisia/show-all.aspx|archive-date=14 July 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> However, according to the [[Corruption Perceptions Index]] published annually by [[Transparency International]], Tunisia was ranked the least corrupt North African country in 2016, with a score of 41. Tunisia has a diverse economy, ranging from agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and petroleum products, to [[Tourism in Tunisia|tourism]], which accounted for 7% of the total GDP and 370,000 jobs in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mobile.france24.com/en/20110111-tunisia-protests-tourism-trouble-paradise-unmasked-tunisian-economic-miracle |title=Trouble in paradise: How one vendor unmasked the 'economic miracle' |publisher=Mobile.france24.com |date= 11 January 2011|access-date=28 October 2011}}</ref> In 2008 it had an economy of US$41 billion in nominal terms, and $82 billion in [[purchasing power parity|PPP]].<ref name=CIA>{{cite web |title=Tunisia|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/tunisia/ |publisher=CIA World Factbook }}</ref>
The agricultural sector accounts for 11.6% of the GDP, industry 25.7%, and services 62.8%. The industrial sector is mainly made up of clothing and footwear manufacturing, production of car parts, and electric machinery. Although Tunisia managed an average 5% growth over the last decade it continues to suffer from a high unemployment especially among youth.{{cn|date=April 2021}}
The [[European Union]] remains Tunisia's first trading partner, currently accounting for 72.5% of Tunisian imports and 75% of Tunisian exports. Tunisia is one of the European Union's most established trading partners in the [[Mediterranean region]] and ranks as the EU's 30th largest trading partner. Tunisia was the first Mediterranean country to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union, in July 1995, although even before the date of entry came into force, Tunisia started dismantling tariffs on bilateral EU trade. Tunisia finalised the tariffs dismantling for industrial products in 2008 and therefore was the first non-EU Mediterranean country to enter in a free trade area with EU.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ec.europa.eu/trade/issues/bilateral/countries/tunisia/index_en.htm|access-date=16 September 2009 |title=Bilateral relations Tunisia EU |work=europa.eu}}</ref>
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