TUNIS, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Tunisia's aerospace sector has expanded, with more than 85 Tunisian and foreign companies as well as over 20,000 people, amid growing exports and investment, the country's senior official said Tuesday.
Hatem Soussi, central director at the Tunisian Foreign Investment Promotion Agency, told Tunisian National Radio that the North African country has one of the world's highest proportions of university graduates in engineering and technology.
Sector exports reached about 1.74 billion Tunisian dinars (around 582 million U.S. dollars) in 2025, growing at an average annual rate of 20.4 percent over the past four years, he said.
The sector expanded 12 percent in 2025 and is on course for the same pace in 2026, while foreign investment inflows have risen 30 percent from a year earlier, Soussi added.
Tunisia aims to raise local integration above 50 percent by 2030, double exports and create 10,000 more jobs in the sector, he said.
Soussi stressed that the country is well placed to attract more foreign companies and become a regional hub for aircraft component manufacturing.
Tunisia has been working to build aerospace ecosystems and attract companies from across the global aerospace industry. Light two- and four-seat aircraft and light helicopters manufactured in the country have been exported to approximately 20 countries across Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Middle East.
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