Which has higher wild fish catch from bottom trawling, Cameroon or Tunisia?

Tunisia, at 25,741 tonnes against 23,496 tonnes in Cameroon as of 2018.

What is the difference in wild fish catch from bottom trawling between Cameroon and Tunisia?

2,245 tonnes, with Tunisia ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Cameroon and Tunisia?

68 years are reported by both, from 1951 to 2018.

Where does this data come from?

Sea Around Us (2020) – processed by Our World in Data, published as Wild fish catch from bottom trawling. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Cameroon vs Tunisia: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Cameroon

23,496 tonnes

in 2018

Tunisia

25,741 tonnes

in 2018

Cameroon rank

59th

Tunisia rank

57th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

Cameroon
Tunisia

How they compare

Tunisia currently reports 25,741 tonnes against 23,496 tonnes in Cameroon, a difference of 2,245 tonnes.

That makes Tunisia's figure about 1.1 times Cameroon's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 68 shared years of data; in 1951 it was Tunisia ahead.

Cameroon ranks 59th and Tunisia ranks 57th of 111 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Cameroon averaged higher in 2 and Tunisia in 5.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Cameroon	Tunisia	Difference	Ahead
1950s	2,003 tonnes	2,710 tonnes	707.57 tonnes	Tunisia
1960s	9,639 tonnes	6,269 tonnes	3,369 tonnes	Cameroon
1970s	22,097 tonnes	13,741 tonnes	8,356 tonnes	Cameroon
1980s	17,916 tonnes	27,662 tonnes	9,746 tonnes	Tunisia
1990s	15,130 tonnes	29,181 tonnes	14,051 tonnes	Tunisia
2000s	12,828 tonnes	26,937 tonnes	14,109 tonnes	Tunisia
2010s	14,013 tonnes	27,109 tonnes	13,096 tonnes	Tunisia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher wild fish catch from bottom trawling, Cameroon or Tunisia?: Tunisia, at 25,741 tonnes against 23,496 tonnes in Cameroon as of 2018.
What is the difference in wild fish catch from bottom trawling between Cameroon and Tunisia?: 2,245 tonnes, with Tunisia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Cameroon and Tunisia?: 68 years are reported by both, from 1951 to 2018.
How do Cameroon and Tunisia rank globally for wild fish catch from bottom trawling?: Cameroon ranks 59th and Tunisia ranks 57th of 111 countries.
Where does this data come from?: Sea Around Us (2020) – processed by Our World in Data, published as Wild fish catch from bottom trawling. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Cameroon vs Tunisia: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling. Statizoid, drawing on Sea Around Us (2020) – processed by Our World in Data. Retrieved 23 September 2026, from https://reference.statizoid.com/compare/bottom-trawling/cameroon/tunisia/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://reference.statizoid.com/compare/bottom-trawling/cameroon/tunisia/">Cameroon vs Tunisia: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling
Unit: tonnes
Source: Sea Around Us (2020) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 111 places, 6,156 data points, 1950–2018
Last refreshed: 18 September 2026

Bottom trawling is a fishing method in which a large, heavy net is dragged along the seafloor to catch fish and other marine life.