Unemployment by country
Share of people who want a job but cannot find one. The map opens on 2025, with figures for 181 countries.
Highest in 2025
- eSwatini 34.2%
- South Africa 32.4%
- Djibouti 26.0%
- Botswana 24.5%
- Gabon 20.2%
Lowest in 2025
About the data
Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment.
- Unit
- % of labor force
- Years
- 1991–2025
- Data as of
- 2026-09-28
- Source
- World Bank
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- World Bank, World Development Indicators (SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS), CC BY 4.0
All countries
- Afghanistan 13.4% (2025)
- Albania 10.9% (2025)
- Algeria 11.6% (2025)
- Angola 14.1% (2025)
- Argentina 7.1% (2025)
- Armenia 12.9% (2025)
- Australia 4.1% (2025)
- Austria 5.6% (2025)
- Azerbaijan 5.5% (2025)
- Bahamas 9.2% (2025)
- Bahrain 1.1% (2025)
- Bangladesh 3.8% (2025)
- Barbados 6.5% (2025)
- Belarus 3.4% (2025)
- Belgium 5.9% (2025)
- Belize 8.9% (2025)
- Benin 1.6% (2025)
- Bhutan 3.2% (2025)
- Bolivia 3.0% (2025)
- Bosnia and Herz. 11.0% (2025)
- Botswana 24.5% (2025)
- Brazil 6.0% (2025)
- Brunei 5.3% (2025)
- Bulgaria 3.5% (2025)
- Burkina Faso 3.5% (2025)
- Burundi 0.9% (2025)
- Cabo Verde 11.9% (2025)
- Cambodia 0.3% (2025)
- Cameroon 3.6% (2025)
- Canada 6.9% (2025)
- Central African Rep. 6.3% (2025)
- Chad 1.1% (2025)
- Chile 9.0% (2025)
- China 4.6% (2025)
- Colombia 8.3% (2025)
- Comoros 3.8% (2025)
- Congo 19.9% (2025)
- Costa Rica 6.8% (2025)
- Côte d'Ivoire 2.3% (2025)
- Croatia 5.0% (2025)
- Cuba 1.7% (2025)
- Cyprus 4.9% (2025)
- Czechia 2.8% (2025)
- Dem. Rep. Congo 4.4% (2025)
- Denmark 5.5% (2025)
- Djibouti 26.0% (2025)
- Dominican Rep. 5.1% (2025)
- Ecuador 3.3% (2025)
- Egypt 6.8% (2025)
- El Salvador 3.3% (2025)
- Eq. Guinea 8.3% (2025)
- Eritrea 6.0% (2025)
- Estonia 8.3% (2025)
- eSwatini 34.2% (2025)
- Ethiopia 3.3% (2025)
- Fiji 5.3% (2025)
- Finland 9.5% (2025)
- Fr. Polynesia 11.7% (2025)
- France 7.5% (2025)
- Gabon 20.2% (2025)
- Gambia 6.5% (2025)
- Georgia 12.1% (2025)
- Germany 3.7% (2025)
- Ghana 3.0% (2025)
- Greece 8.5% (2025)
- Guam 5.6% (2025)
- Guatemala 2.6% (2025)
- Guinea 5.2% (2025)
- Guinea-Bissau 2.7% (2025)
- Guyana 12.0% (2025)
- Haiti 14.9% (2025)
- Honduras 4.9% (2025)
- Hong Kong 2.8% (2025)
- Hungary 4.5% (2025)
- Iceland 3.6% (2025)
- India 4.2% (2025)
- Indonesia 3.2% (2025)
- Iran 8.3% (2025)
- Iraq 15.5% (2025)
- Ireland 4.6% (2025)
- Israel 3.5% (2025)
- Italy 6.4% (2025)
- Jamaica 3.3% (2025)
- Japan 2.5% (2025)
- Jordan 16.5% (2025)
- Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip 24.4% (2022)
- Kazakhstan 4.8% (2025)
- Kenya 5.4% (2025)
- Kuwait 2.2% (2025)
- Kyrgyzstan 3.5% (2025)
- Laos 1.2% (2025)
- Latvia 6.6% (2025)
- Lebanon 11.0% (2023)
- Lesotho 16.3% (2025)
- Liberia 2.9% (2025)
- Libya 18.8% (2025)
- Lithuania 6.7% (2025)
- Luxembourg 6.3% (2025)
- Macao 2.3% (2025)
- Madagascar 3.0% (2025)
- Malawi 5.1% (2025)
- Malaysia 3.8% (2025)
- Maldives 4.5% (2025)
- Mali 2.8% (2025)
- Malta 2.9% (2025)
- Mauritania 10.3% (2025)
- Mauritius 5.6% (2025)
- Mexico 2.7% (2025)
- Moldova 1.5% (2025)
- Mongolia 5.2% (2025)
- Montenegro 13.6% (2025)
- Morocco 9.0% (2025)
- Mozambique 6.6% (2025)
- Myanmar 3.0% (2025)
- Namibia 19.3% (2025)
- Nepal 10.5% (2025)
- Netherlands 3.9% (2025)
- New Caledonia 11.2% (2025)
- New Zealand 5.1% (2025)
- Nicaragua 5.0% (2025)
- Niger 0.4% (2025)
- Nigeria 3.1% (2025)
- North Korea 3.5% (2025)
- North Macedonia 12.3% (2025)
- Norway 4.6% (2025)
- Oman 3.3% (2025)
- Pakistan 5.4% (2025)
- Panama 8.4% (2025)
- Papua New Guinea 2.6% (2025)
- Paraguay 4.8% (2025)
- Peru 5.1% (2025)
- Philippines 2.2% (2025)
- Poland 3.0% (2025)
- Portugal 6.2% (2025)
- Puerto Rico 6.0% (2025)
- Qatar 0.1% (2025)
- Romania 6.0% (2025)
- Russia 2.1% (2025)
- Rwanda 11.4% (2025)
- S. Sudan 12.4% (2023)
- Saint Lucia 9.5% (2025)
- Samoa 5.0% (2025)
- São Tomé and Principe 9.1% (2025)
- Saudi Arabia 3.0% (2025)
- Senegal 2.7% (2025)
- Serbia 7.1% (2025)
- Sierra Leone 3.2% (2025)
- Singapore 2.8% (2025)
- Slovakia 5.4% (2025)
- Slovenia 3.2% (2025)
- Solomon Is. 1.4% (2025)
- Somalia 18.9% (2025)
- South Africa 32.4% (2025)
- South Korea 2.7% (2025)
- Spain 10.4% (2025)
- Sri Lanka 4.0% (2025)
- St. Vin. and Gren. 18.0% (2025)
- Sudan 7.5% (2022)
- Suriname 7.8% (2025)
- Sweden 8.7% (2025)
- Switzerland 4.9% (2025)
- Syria 13.6% (2025)
- Tajikistan 6.9% (2025)
- Tanzania 1.6% (2025)
- Thailand 0.8% (2025)
- Timor-Leste 1.6% (2025)
- Togo 2.0% (2025)
- Tonga 2.0% (2025)
- Trinidad and Tobago 3.3% (2025)
- Tunisia 15.1% (2025)
- Turkey 8.5% (2025)
- Turkmenistan 4.3% (2025)
- U.S. Virgin Is. 11.4% (2025)
- Uganda 2.7% (2025)
- Ukraine 9.8% (2021)
- United Arab Emirates 2.2% (2025)
- United Kingdom 4.7% (2025)
- United States of America 4.2% (2025)
- Uruguay 7.5% (2025)
- Uzbekistan 4.6% (2025)
- Vanuatu 5.1% (2025)
- Venezuela 5.3% (2025)
- Vietnam 1.5% (2025)
- Yemen 17.3% (2025)
- Zambia 5.9% (2025)
- Zimbabwe 9.3% (2025)