Tunisia Company & Beneficial Ownership Directory
Company register search for 38,529 Tunisia companies, plus shareholder, officer and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Tunisia company register data is filed on the Registre National des Entreprises (RNE, National Business Register), created by Loi n°2018-52 of 29 October 2018. The same law introduced a beneficial-ownership concept, with implementing mechanics set out in Décret n°54-2019 of 21 January 2019, at a threshold above 20% of capital or voting rights — lower than the common 25% default. Filings exist under the decree, but a fully public, centralized register accessible to third parties does not appear to be operational yet, so the underlying data is not broadly published.
Tunisia beneficial ownership guideTop Companies in Tunisia
Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Data Coverage
Record counts by data layer for Tunisia, as of the last reconciliation.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about Tunisia
Tunisia’s company registry is the Registre National des Entreprises (RNE), established by Loi n° 2018-52 and operationally run by the Centre National du Registre des Entreprises (CNRE), with the Commercial Companies Code (Loi 2000-93) governing company forms (SARL, SUARL, SA, partnerships). The RNE counted 836,808 registered enterprises as of December 31, 2024 (+1.48% year-on-year), though new entries actually fell to 27,143 in 2024 from 33,657 in 2023 (-19.4%) — entries and total stock should not be conflated, as they measure different things. Beneficial ownership is declared to the RNE per Loi 2018-52 and Décret 2019-54 (legal representatives must update beneficial-owner data within 30 days of any change), but access remains restricted rather than fully public: a ministerial decree published January 13, 2026 newly regulates access via a “legitimate interest” concept and real-time interoperability for authorized institutions, not a UK/EU-style public UBO portal. Tunisia was removed from the FATF grey list on October 18, 2019 and remains off it as of the most recent 2025-2026 plenaries — correcting a common assumption that Tunisia is still grey-listed, a status that in fact ended over six years ago.
Tunisia’s investment framework still runs on Loi n° 2016-71 (the Investment Law), which created the High Investment Council, the Tunisia Investment Authority (TIA), and the Tunisian Investment Fund; the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (FIPA) remains a SEPARATE body specifically for foreign investment, a dual-institution structure flagged as a source of inefficiency. In February 2025, President Kais Saïed urged merging these institutions into a single one-stop authority, and a draft law (bill n° 26/2024) was under parliamentary review as of mid-2026, but this consolidation was NOT yet enacted as of this research — content should not describe TIA/FIPA as already merged. FDI activity was strong in the nine months to September 2025: TND 2.042 billion in non-energy FDI financed 762 projects and generated 11,554 new jobs (FIPA data), with sectoral distribution skewed heavily toward Manufacturing (62.9%) over Energy (24.3%), Services (11.6%), and Agriculture (1.2%).
Tunisia’s GDP grew 2.5% in 2025 (World Bank), with the IMF forecasting 2.1% for 2026; inflation fell from a 10.4% peak in February 2023 to an average of 5.7% in 2025, and the Banque Centrale de Tunisie cut its policy rate to 7% in December 2025 from 8%. Public debt stood at approximately 82.2% of GDP in 2025, still well above the pre-COVID level of 67.8% (2019). A 2022 IMF staff-level agreement for a roughly $1.9 billion Extended Fund Facility was never approved by the IMF Executive Board, and the programme remains frozen rather than active as of this research — a related €900 million EU macro-financial-assistance package also remains undisbursed. Population reached 11,972,169 per Tunisia’s 2024 census (INS) — the authoritative, census-based figure, notably lower than the ~12.35-12.66 million projection-based figures circulating elsewhere — with population growth of just 0.87%, the lowest ever recorded. Unemployment stood at 15.0% in Q1 2026, youth unemployment 37.5% (barely improved over four years), and university-graduate unemployment worsened to 24.2% with a stark gender gap (male 14.2% vs. female 32%). The diaspora numbers roughly 1.4 million (not an implausible “14 million” figure found in one low-quality source), with remittances of TND 7.6 billion in 2024 (6.5% of GDP) helping support foreign-exchange reserves (approximately 101 days of import cover as of April 2026) alongside tourism receipts.
Tunisia company base, broken down
Charts render from live counts. Where coverage is partial, the excluded population is stated on the chart.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file. Entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Enterprises by size category
From the INS (Institut National de la Statistique) Registre National des Entreprises (RNE) 14th-edition report (published September 5, 2026; data as of December 31, 2024), covering 836,808 total registered enterprises. These five rows are the size bands reported in the available source excerpt and deliberately do NOT sum to 100% (they total 98.6%) — the remaining ~1.4% falls into unlisted intermediate bands (10-99 employees) not broken out in the source material reviewed, and this gap is left unstated rather than force-balanced. A genuine caveat for interpretation: the dominant “no employees” category (87.1% of all registered enterprises, 729,240 entities) likely reflects a large volume of sole proprietors, informal registrations, or dormant entities rather than active SMEs with payrolls. Source: Institut National de la Statistique (INS), Statistiques issues du Répertoire National des Entreprises (RNE), 14th edition, published September 5, 2026 (data as of December 31, 2024).
Foreign-controlled entities
No total-stock count of foreign-owned entities in Tunisia was located. The figure presented here (762) is the number of non-energy investment projects recorded by FIPA (Foreign Investment Promotion Agency) for the nine months January-September 2025, financing TND 2.042 billion and generating 11,554 new jobs — a flow of newly-recorded investment projects for that period, not a stock/total count of all foreign-owned companies operating in Tunisia, and covering only nine months rather than a full year. Sectoral distribution for this period: Manufacturing 62.9%, Energy 24.3% (excluded from the non-energy figures above but shown here for context), Services 11.6%, Agriculture 1.2%. A government target of TND 3,400 million in full-year 2025 FDI was stated but actual final-year outturn against that target was not independently confirmed in this research.
Who uses Tunisia ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a Tunisia counterparty means confirming the beneficial owner behind the entity and evidencing where that answer came from, not just pulling the registered name.
AML and sanctions screening
Sanctions exposure often sits above the operating company, in a holding layer registered elsewhere. Screening the local entity alone will not surface it; screening the resolved ownership chain will.
Supplier and credit risk
Filed accounts cover a limited share of the register in most jurisdictions, so group membership is often a better solvency signal than a standalone balance sheet.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many companies does Zavia have on record for Tunisia?
Zavia holds 38,529 company records for Tunisia, of which 38,528 (100%) are currently active on the register.
Is beneficial ownership (UBO) data public in Tunisia?
Tunisia company register data is filed on the Registre National des Entreprises (RNE, National Business Register), created by Loi n°2018-52 of 29 October 2018. The same law introduced a beneficial-ownership concept, with implementing mechanics set out in Décret n°54-2019 of 21 January 2019, at a threshold above 20% of capital or voting rights — lower than the common 25% default. Filings exist under the decree, but a fully public, centralized register accessible to third parties does not appear to be operational yet, so the underlying data is not broadly published.
Does Zavia have shareholder and group structure data for Tunisia companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 0 shareholder records for Tunisia companies, with 1,398 ultimate parent relationships resolved for group-structure and ownership-chain mapping.
Does Zavia have VAT registration data for Tunisia companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 166 VAT records for Tunisia companies, linked to the same registered entity as its company profile.
Can I access Tunisia's company data through an API?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Tunisia, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Where can I read more about how UBO verification works in Tunisia?
Zavia's Tunisia beneficial ownership guide covers the register, the UBO threshold, and how to verify a company's ownership chain in more depth than this directory page.