External debt service fell by 78.7% to 1 billion dinars as of February 20, 2026, compared with nearly 5 billion dinars on the same date last year, according to monetary and financial indicators published by the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT).
As for workers’ remittances and tourism receipts, they increased by 6.8% to 1.2 billion dinars and by 4.6% to 0.865 billion dinars, respectively.
As a result, net foreign exchange reserves rose from 23 billion dinars, equivalent to 101 days of imports as of February 24, 2025, to 25.3 billion dinars, or the equivalent of 107 days of imports, at present.
BCT statistics also showed a significant increase of 19.6% in banknotes and coins in circulation, reaching 27.5 billion dinars on February 23 this year, compared with 23 billion dinars a year earlier.
