Indicator · unemployment-rate
Unemployment rate
Modelled ILO estimate.
- Unit
- %
- Places
- 181 countries in 2025
- Built from
- World macro core indicators
- Reading it
- Lower is better.
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World, 1991–2025
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Highest and lowest in 2025
| Eswatini | 34.2% |
|---|---|
| South Africa | 32.4% |
| Djibouti | 26.0% |
| Botswana | 24.5% |
| Gabon | 20.2% |
| Qatar | 0.1% |
|---|---|
| Cambodia | 0.3% |
| Niger | 0.4% |
| Thailand | 0.8% |
| Burundi | 0.9% |
How it is computed
SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS, from the World macro core indicators dataset on this site. visualizedata.org computes the indicator for every place and year; the full table, the map and each place's history are on its page there. The underlying data, with its source and license, is on the dataset page, with the API and downloads.