Tunisia Population and History 2004
North African state. At the 2004 census the population of the Maghreb republic was 9,911,000 residents (2,600,000 residents In 1936). The very high rate of demographic growth was slowed down (0.9 % in the five-year period 2000-2005) by a government program of family planning and the phenomenon of emigration. Nonetheless, the population, two-thirds urban and especially concentrated in the capital Tunis and the surrounding area, is among the youngest in the world (over a quarter of the residents are under…