{"id":24083,"date":"2026-01-08T09:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=24083"},"modified":"2026-01-08T09:29:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:29:36","slug":"olive-oil-production-in-tunisia-consolidates-world-number-2-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2026\/01\/08\/olive-oil-production-in-tunisia-consolidates-world-number-2-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Olive oil production in Tunisia consolidates world number 2 status\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Olive oil production shifts have lately been shuffling the world\u2019s runner-up position between Tunisia and Italy but now the North African country is almost certainly number 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/arabpress.com\/znnvkr-tunisia-s-olive-oil-production-expected-to-reach-record-500-000-tons-in-2026\"><u>Arab Press<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;on January 8, 2026, Tunisia might produce 500,000 tonnes of olive oil in 2025-26, up 50% annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Official estimates however put 2025-26 output at 380,000-400,000 tonnes, which still surpasses Italy\u2019s 2025-26 projection of 300,000 tonnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the olive sector is prone to sharp changes due to weather, ranking can change drastically. For instance, Italy in end 2025 had slipped to the 4<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0position worldwide after Greece, Tunisia and Spain, before reclaiming the third slot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.ilsole24ore.com\/art\/olive-oil-tunisia-overtakes-italy-because-we-are-producing-less-of-it-AIRebOi\"><u>Il Sole 24 Ore<\/u><\/a>, Italy used to average 800,000 tonnes per year before 2000 &#8211; an example of sharp production fluctuations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-stable-production-in-the-maghreb\"><strong>Stable Production in the Maghreb&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not strictly true of Tunisia, which in recent years has been pressing uptick volumes of the oil through mechanized means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 2024-25 timeline, extracted volumes grew by 41.3% yearly to 288,600 tonnes, albeit turnover fell by 28.4% from a price crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just two seasons beforehand (2022-23), Tunisia had upped its processing capacity to 217,000 tonnes, to rank 5<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;worldwide.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took only a season more for the country to improve production rankings as the 4<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;largest olive oil origin, representing 10% of global supplies. By end 2025, it was the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;largest, having earned&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aceitedelcampo.com\/en\/tunisian-olive-oil\/\"><u>4.5 billion dinars<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;($1.544 billion) for the January-August 2025 period. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only area with no stability is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/insights\/prices\/tunisia\/olive-oil\/\"><u>price<\/u><\/a>, whose controlling forces are mainly international factors due to export orientation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between November 2024 and September 2025, average export prices from the North African country slumped by 46.2% annually, to 9.28 dinars ($3.19) a liter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tunisia nevertheless boasts high quality olive oil exports, with 77.7% of all exports in the 2024-25 season passing as extra-virgin. The below stats follow up on similar tidbits that characterize this key export.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-tunisia-olive-oil-statistics\"><strong>Tunisia Olive Oil&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Statistics&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Tunisia is a major supplier of olive oil, with a 10% world production share. The commodity represents&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aceitedelcampo.com\/en\/tunisian-olive-oil\/\"><u>53%<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;of annual national agri-food shipments. Most exports go to competitor Spain, which received&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news-tunisia.tunisienumerique.com\/tunisia-tnd-3-6-billion-in-tunisian-olive-oil-export-revenues-by-the-end-of-september-2025\/\"><u>26.7%<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;of shipments in the initial 11 months of the 2024-25 campaign. Italy, another competitor, also remained the top importer of Tunisia\u2019s organic olive oil in the same period with a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/northafricapost.com\/91917-tunisias-olive-oil-export-revenues-drop-by-28-despite-surge-in-export-volumes.html\"><u>51.1%<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;share.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite seasonal fluctuations, olive and olive oil production fuel the giant sector. The olive harvest last peaked in 2020 at&nbsp;<a href=\"#data\/QCL\"><u>2 million tonnes<\/u><\/a>, while olive oil attained 399,900 tonnes the same year. The following data interpretation from the FAOSTAT recounts 2020-23 highlights:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Olives [tonnes]<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Olive Oil [tonnes]<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2023<\/td><td>1,093,462<\/td><td>210,000<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>1,200,000<\/td><td>235,200<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>700,000<\/td><td>144,200<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>2,000,000<\/td><td>399,900<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fig:\u00a0<em>olive and olive oil production in Tunisia, 2020-23<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How much does Tunisia earn per liter of olive oil?<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fluctuations in international markets affect the average prices of olive oil from Tunisia. In the 2023-24 season, the price averaged&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/northafricapost.com\/91917-tunisias-olive-oil-export-revenues-drop-by-28-despite-surge-in-export-volumes.html\"><u>17.9 dinars<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;($5.94) a liter while in 2024-25 it plummeted to 9.28 dinars ($3.19) due to a global surplus. Organic oil however asserts a robust price at between 13.81 dinars ($4.74) a liter for bulk and 17.06 dinars ($5.86)\/l for packaged oil, as of September 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olive oil production shifts have lately been shuffling the world\u2019s runner-up position between Tunisia and Italy but now the North African country is almost certainly number 2. According to the&nbsp;Arab Press&nbsp;on January 8, 2026, Tunisia might produce 500,000 tonnes of olive oil in 2025-26, up 50% annually. 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