Tunisia

Economic sectors

The Tunisian economy is a diverse one with services contributing 60 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 1998 and industry contributing 28 percent. In the 1960s and 1970s, when there was heavy state control, oil and phosphates were central to the economy. These sectors have diminished in importance since the 1980s with increases in the manufacturing of textiles and

Communications
Country	Newspapers	Radios	TV Sets^a	Cable subscribers^a	Mobile Phones^a	Fax Machines^a	Personal Computers^a	Internet Hosts^b	Internet Users^b
	1996	1997	1998	1998	1998	1998	1998	1999	1999
Tunisia	31	223	198	N/A	4	3.4	14.7	0.06	30
United States	215	2,146	847	244.3	256	78.4	458.6	1,508.77	74,100
Egypt	40	324	122	N/A	1	0.5	9.1	0.28	200
Libya	14	233	126	0.0	3	N/A	N/A	0.00	7
^aData are from International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication Development Report 1999 and are per 1,000 people.
^bData are from the Internet Software Consortium (http://www.isc.org) and are per 10,000 people.
SOURCE: World Bank. World Development Indicators 2000.

electrical equipment. The agricultural industry employs nearly a quarter of the labor force, but its output is dependent upon the weather; during drought years this sector's contribution to GDP can fall from 16 percent to 12 percent, the contribution in 1998.