In the 1946 census, the Italians in Tunisia were 84,935, but in 1959 (3 years after many Italian settlers left to Italy or France after independence from France) there were only 51,702, and in 1969 there were less than 10,000.
К 1946 г. итальянцами себя назвали лишь 84 935 чел., в 1959 (3 года спустя начала массовой эмиграции тунисских итальянцев в Италию и Францию) — 51 702; в 1969 — менее 10 000.