List of countries by unemployment rate

Unemployment rate per country in 2013

This is a list of countries by unemployment rate. Methods of calculation and presentation of unemployment rate vary from country to country. Some countries count insured unemployed only, some count those in receipt of welfare benefit only, some count the disabled and other permanently unemployable people, some countries count those who choose (and are financially able) not to work, supported by their spouses and caring for a family, some count students at college and so on. There may also be differences in the minimum requirements and some consider people employed even if only marginally associated with employment market (for example, working only one hour per week).[1] There can be differences in the age limit. For example, Eurostat uses 15 to 74 years old when calculating unemployment rate, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics uses anyone 16 years of age or older (in both cases, people who are under education, retired, on maternity/paternity leave, prevented from working due to health, or do not work but have been inactive in seeking employment in the last four weeks are excluded from the workforce, and therefore not counted as unemployed).[2][3] Unemployment rates are often seasonally adjusted to avoid variations that depend on time of year.[2][3] Employment rate as a percentage of total population in working age is sometimes used instead of unemployment rate.

For purposes of comparison, harmonized values are published by International Labour Organization (ILO) and by OECD. The ILO harmonized unemployment rate refers to those who are currently not working but are willing and able to work for pay, currently available to work, and have actively searched for work. The OECD harmonized unemployment rate gives the number of unemployed persons as a percentage of the labour force.

Name of CountriesUnemployment rate (%)Source / date of information
 Afghanistan23.92017 [4]
 Albania12.52018 (Q1)[5]
 Algeria11.22015 (September)[6]
 American Samoa (United States)9.22010 [7]
 Andorra3.72017 [4]
 Anguilla (United Kingdom)7.82013 (July)[8]
 Antigua and Barbuda11.02014 [4]
 Argentina7.22017 (Q4)[9]
 Armenia20.62018 (Jan-Jun)[10]
 Aruba (Netherlands)15.72012[11]
 Australia5.32018 (July)[12]
 Austria4.92018 (July)[13]
 Azerbaijan6.02017 [4]
 Bahrain3.8 "official estimate; actual rate is higher"2017 [4]
 Bangladesh4.0 "about 40% of the population is underemployed;
many persons counted as employed work only a few hours a week and at low wages"
2017 [4]
 Barbados10.52017 [4]
 Belarus5.6 2017[14]
 Belgium6.22018 (July)[13]
 Belize10.12017 [4]
 Bermuda7.02017 [4]
 Bhutan3.22017 [4]
 Bolivia4.0 "data are for urban areas; widespread underemployment"2017 [4]
 Bosnia and Herzegovina20.52017 [15]
 Botswana20.02013 [16]
 Brazil13.12018 (Q1) [17]
 British Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)2.92015 [4]
 Brunei6.92017 [4]
 Bulgaria4.82018 (July)[13]
 Burma4.02017 [4]
 Cambodia0.32017 [18]
 Cameroon4.42014[4][19]
 Canada5.92018 (February)[20]
 Cape Verde9.02017 [21]
 Cayman Islands (United Kingdom)4.22016 (fall)[22]
 Central African Republic6.92016 [4]
 Chad22.62006[23]
 Chile7.02017[24]
 China, People's Republic of3.92017 [25]
 Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia)6.72011 [26]
 Colombia9.42017 [27]
 Comoros6.52014 [4]
 Cook Islands13.12005 [4]
 Costa Rica8.52017 (Q1)[28]
 Croatia8.82018 (July)[13]
 Cuba2.62017 [29]
 Cyprus7.52018 (August)[13]
 Czech Republic2.32018 (July)[13]
 Denmark5.02018 (July)[13]
 Djibouti40.02017 [4]
 Dominica23.02000 [4]
 Dominican Republic14.42010 (April)[30]
 East Timor4.42014 [4]
 Ecuador4.22017 [4]
 Egypt11.32017(Q4) [31]
 El Salvador7.0 "data are official rates; but underemployment is high"2017[4]
 Equatorial Guinea8.62014 [4]
 Estonia5.02018 (June)[13]
 European Union6.82018 (July)[13]
 Faroe Islands (Denmark)2.22017 (August)[32]
 Fiji8.62007[33][34]
 Finland7.62018 (July)[13]
 France9.22018 (July)[13]
 French Polynesia (France)11.72007[35]
 Gabon28.02015 [4]
 Georgia14.02018 (Q1)[36]
 Germany3.42018 (July)[13]
 Ghana11.92015 [37]
 Gibraltar (United Kingdom)1.82011[38]
 Greece19.52018 (May)[13]
 Greenland (Denmark)9.12015[39]
 Grenada242017 [40]
 Guam (United States)4.52017 [4]
 Guatemala2.32017 [4]
 Guernsey (United Kingdom)1.52010 (Q2)[41]
 Guyana9.02009 (July)[42]
 Honduras5.92017 [4]
 Hong Kong (People's Republic of China)3.32014 (October–December)[43]
 Hungary3.62018 (June)[13]
 Iceland2.82018 (June)[13]
 India7.092018 (February)[44]
 Indonesia5.332017 (February)[45]
 Iran12.4 "data are Iranian Government numbers"2017 [4]
 Iraq16.02012 [4]
 Ireland5.42018 (September)[46]
 Isle of Man1.82010 (August)[47]
 Israel3.72018 (January)[48]
 Italy9.72018 (August)[13]
 Jamaica10.42017 [4]
 Japan2.42018 (March)[49]
 Jersey (United Kingdom)2.72009 (July)[50]
 Jordan18.52017 [4]
 Kazakhstan4.92018 (July)[51]
 Kenya42.02009 [52]
 Kiribati38.22006 [53]
 Kosovo26.5 "actual unemployment rate is significantly lower, as the majority of employers in Kosovo don't report most of their employees"2018 (Q1)[54]
 Kuwait2.12017 [4]
 Kyrgyzstan7.22016 [55]
 Laos1.52016 [4]
 Latvia7.62018 (July)[13]
 Lebanon10.02009 (July)[56]
 Lesotho28.12014 [4]
 Libya13.02005 (May)[57]
 Liechtenstein2.12016 (31 December)[58]
 Lithuania6.32018 (July)[13]
 Luxembourg5.12018 (July)[13]
 Macau (People's Republic of China)2.02017 [4]
 Macedonia22.92017 (Q1)[59]
 Malaysia3.52017 (March)[60]
 Mali8.12016 [4]
 Malta4.02018 (July)[13]
 Marshall Islands36.02006 [4]
 Mauritania11.72016 [4]
 Mauritius6.92017 [4]
 Mayotte (France)25.42005
 Mexico3.392018 (June) [61]
 Federated States of Micronesia22.02000[62]
 Moldova4.22015 (Q4)[63]
 Monaco2.02012 [4]
 Mongolia7.32017 [4]
 Montenegro14.42018 (Q2)[64]
 Montserrat (United Kingdom)5.62017 [4]
 Morocco10.72017 (Q1)[65]
 Mozambique24.52017 [4]
 Namibia34.02016 [4]
 Nauru23.02011[66]
   Nepal3.02017 [4]
 Netherlands3.82018 (July)[13]
 Netherlands Antilles (Netherlands)10.02008[67]
 New Caledonia (France)14.72014[4]
 New Zealand4.92017 [4]
 Nicaragua6.52017 [4]
 Nigeria18.82017 (Q3)[68]
 North Korea25.62013 [4]
 Northern Mariana Islands (United States)11.22010 [4]
 Norway3.92018 (June)[13]
 Niue10.72006[69]
 Pakistan6.02017 [4]
 Palau1.72015 [4]
 Palestine28.452015 (Q2)[70][71]
 Panama5.52017 [4]
 Papua New Guinea2.52017 [4]
 Paraguay6.52017 [4]
 Peru6.12015 (August)[72]
 Philippines5.52018 (April)[73]
 Poland3.52018 (July)[13]
 Portugal6.82018 (July)[13]
 Puerto Rico (United States)9.32018 (June)[74]
 Qatar0.62017 [4]
 Romania4.22018 (July)[13]
 Russia6.02016 (March)[75]
 Rwanda13.22017 (May)[76]
 Saint Helena (United Kingdom)14.01998 [4]
 Saint Kitts and Nevis5.12006 [77]
 Saint Lucia15.72006 [78]
 Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)8.72015 [4]
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines18.02009 (June)[79]
 San Marino8.02017 [4]
 Saudi Arabia3.9 (5.6 Saudi, 0.9 non-Saudi)2018 (Q1)[80]
 Senegal48.0 (30.0 among adults aged 24 and under)[81]2007[4]
 Serbia11.82017 (Q2)[82]
 Sierra Leone8.62015 [83]
 Singapore2.1 (non-seasonally adjusted 2.8)2018 (Q2) [84]
 Slovakia6.82018 (July)[13]
 Slovenia5.82018 (July)[13]
 South Africa27.22018 (Q2)[85]
 South Korea4.92016 (February)[86]
 Spain15.12018 (July)[13]
 Sri Lanka42017 (Q1)[87]
 Sudan19.62017 [4]
 Suriname9.12017 [4]
 Swaziland28.02014 [4]
 Sweden6.22018 (July)[13]
  Switzerland2.42018 (June)[88]
 Syria50.02017 [4]
 Taiwan3.92016 (April)[89]
 Tajikistan2.42016[90]
 Thailand0.72017 [4]
 The Bahamas10.02017 [4]
 Tonga6.52011[91]
 Trinidad and Tobago4.52017 [4]
 Tunisia15.92017[92]
 Turkey10.32017 (November)[93]
 Turkmenistan8.62016 [94]
 Turks and Caicos Islands5.42007[95]
 Ukraine (excluding occupied territories)9.72018 (Q1) [96]
 United Arab Emirates1.62016 [4]
 United Kingdom4.02018 (May)[13]
 United States3.92018 (July)[13]
 Uruguay9.02017 (March)[97]
 Uzbekistan5.82017 [98]
 Vanuatu4.62009[99]
 Venezuela33.32018 [100]
 Vietnam2.22017 [4]
 U.S. Virgin Islands (United States)9.52018 (June) [101]
 Wallis and Futuna (France)12.22008[102]
 Yemen35.02009 (June)[103]
 Zambia15.02008 [4]
 Zimbabwe11.3 95.0 claimed[104]2014 [4]

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See also

  • World Economic Outlook, April 2018, Cyclical Upswing, Structural Change, International Monetary Fund, 2018 , Table B1. Advanced Economies: Unemployment, Employment, and Real GDP per Capita , World Economic Outlook Database, April 2018
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