Tunisia TUN
Regulatory maturity stage: Intermediate Index: 68.2 (rank 7/19) North Africa
Tunisia is placed at the Intermediate stage in the 2025 release. National AI strategy: 2nd generation; dedicated governance bodies: 3; AI-relevant regulations: 6; data protection law: 2004.
- National AI strategy
- 2nd generation
- Dedicated AI governance bodies
- 3
- AI-relevant regulations
- 6
- Data protection law
- 2004
- International frameworks referenced
- 3
- OECD.AI registered initiatives
- 7
- Sovereign language-model programme
- Coded in F1
Index pillars
Indicators
Position among Arab League states with data
Oxford Insights AI readiness, 202542.23
UN E-Government Development Index, 2024rank 870.6935
Human Capital Index, 20240.6497
ITU Global Cybersecurity Index86.23
National Cyber Security Index53.25
Internet users, 2023 (% of population)72.35
AI publications, 2023357
Trends
AI readiness score
Human Capital Index
AI publications per year
Typology coding
- Governance type
- Prime-ministerial council
- Regulatory approach
- Hybrid (hard law and sandboxes)
- Enforcement model
- Bifurcated (INPDP and Decree-Law 2022-54)
- Sovereignty posture
- Aspirational
- International alignment
- EU-influenced
- Cluster label (M3)
- North Africa Innovation Bridge
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Arab AI Governance Lab (2025). Tunisia: country profile. https://arablab.ai/countries/tunisia/ Data: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MOVIFA
Sources: Oxford Insights; UN DESA; World Bank WDI; ITU; e-Governance Academy; OECD.AI; Lab coding (F1, M3).