List of countries by unemployment rate

The following list of countries by unemployment rate sorts countries according to the proportion of workers who are unemployed in a specified period. As unemployment , the state is generally described in a national economy the labor supply exceeds the demand for labor at the prevailing conditions and thus can not find a job all people. However, national statistics can define unemployment differently.

The global unemployment rate is estimated by the CIA for 2017 at 7.7%. The underemployment rate is estimated at up to 30%.

Ranking list

Countries and territories by unemployment rate at the last determinable point in time. The information comes from the World Bank and, in individual cases, from the CIA World Fact Book or other sources and is largely based on data from the International Labor Organization (ILO).

The unemployment rate does not necessarily have to reflect the development and prosperity of an economy. In some countries with low unemployment, the vast majority of the workforce works in agriculture or for very low wages.

For Germany, unemployment is given according to the international definition of the ILO. This figure therefore deviates from the German definition of the Federal Statistical Office .

Country or territory	Unemployment rate in% of the workforce	time
Qatar	00.1%	2019
Niger	00.5%	2019
Solomon Islands	00.6%	2019
Laos	00.6%	2019
Cambodia	00.7%	2019
Bahrain	00.7%	2019
Thailand	00.8%	2019
Rwanda	01.0%	2019
Gibraltar	01.0%	2016
Falkland Islands	01.0%	2016
Tonga	01.1%	2019
Isle of Man	01.1%	2017
Nepal	01.4%	2019
Burundi	01.4%	2019
Myanmar	01.6%	2019
Cuba	01.6%	2019
Palau	01.7%	2015
Madagascar	01.8%	2019
Uganda	01.8%	2019
Chad	01.9%	2019
Czech Republic	01.9%	2019
Monaco	02.0%	2012
Tanzania	02.0%	2019
Vietnam	02.0%	2019
Togo	02.0%	2019
Ethiopia	02.1%	2019
Faroe Islands	02.2%	2017
Philippines	02.2%	2019
Kuwait	02.2%	2019
Benin	02.2%	2019
Macau	02.2%	2019
Japan	02.3%	2019
Bhutan	02.3%	2019
United Arab Emirates	02.3%	2019
Liechtenstein	02.4%	2015
Guatemala	02.5%	2019
Papua New Guinea	02.5%	2019
Guinea-Bissau	02.5%	2019
Kenya	02.6%	2019
Trinidad and Tobago	02.7%	2019
Oman	02.7%	2019
North Korea	02.7%	2019
Liberia	02.8%	2019
Iceland	02.8%	2019
Seychelles	03.0%	2017
Germany	03.0%	2019
Netherlands	03.2%	2019
Mozambique	03.2%	2019
Peru	03.3%	2019
Ivory Coast	03.3%	2019
Malaysia	03.3%	2019
Norway	03.3%	2019
Cameroon	03.4%	2019
Hungary	03.4%	2019
Mexico	03.4%	2019
Malta	03.5%	2019
Poland	03.5%	2019
Bolivia	03.5%	2019
Hong Kong	03.6%	2019
Andorra	03.7%	2016
Central African Republic	03.7%	2019
United States	03.7%	2019
Taiwan	03.8%	2017
United Kingdom	03.9%	2019
Israel	03.9%	2019
Panama	03.9%	2019
Turkmenistan	03.9%	2019
Ecuador	04.0%	2019
Romania	04.0%	2019
New Zealand	04.1%	2019
Fiji	04.1%	2019
Singapore	04.1%	2019
El Salvador	04.1%	2019
South Korea	04.1%	2019
Cayman Islands	04.2%	2015
Bangladesh	04.2%	2019
Slovenia	04.2%	2019
Sri Lanka	04.2%	2019
Democratic Republic of Congo	04.2%	2019
Guinea	04.3%	2019
People's Republic of China	04.3%	2019
Ghana	04.3%	2019
Comoros	04.3%	2019
Bulgaria	04.3%	2019
Vanuatu	04.4%	2019
Sierra Leone	04.4%	2019
Pakistan	04.5%	2019
East Timor	04.5%	2019
Switzerland	04.6%	2019
Russia	04.6%	2019
Kazakhstan	04.6%	2019
Belarus	04.6%	2019
Marshall Islands	04.7%	2011
Austria	04.7%	2019
Indonesia	04.7%	2019
Paraguay	04.8%	2019
Denmark	04.9%	2019
Ireland	04.9%	2019
Zimbabwe	05.0%	2019
Estonia	05.1%	2019
Eritrea	05.1%	2019
St. Kitts and Nevis	05.1%	2001
Australia	05.3%	2019
Guam	05.3%	2019
World average	05.4%	2019
India	05.4%	2019
Luxembourg	05.4%	2019
Honduras	05.4%	2019
Moldova	05.5%	2019
Azerbaijan	05.5%	2019
Slovakia	05.6%	2019
Canada	05.6%	2019
Belgium	05.6%	2019
Malawi	05.7%	2019
Dominican Republic	05.8%	2019
Uzbekistan	05.8%	2019
Saudi Arabia	05.9%	2019
Mongolia	06.0%	2019
Maldives	06.1%	2019
Lebanon	06.2%	2019
Burkina Faso	06.3%	2019
Kyrgyzstan	06.3%	2019
Portugal	06.3%	2019
Lithuania	06.4%	2019
Belize	06.4%	2019
Equatorial Guinea	06.4%	2019
Comoros	06.5%	2014
Sweden	06.5%	2019
Latvia	06.5%	2019
Finland	06.6%	2019
Senegal	06.6%	2019
Mauritius	06.7%	2019
European Union	06.7%	2019
Nicaragua	06.8%	2019
Angola	06.9%	2019
Croatia	06.9%	2019
Bermuda	07.0%	2017
Chile	07.1%	2019
Mali	07.2%	2019
Cyprus	07.3%	2019
Suriname	07.3%	2019
Channel Islands	07.5%	2019
Jamaica	08.0%	2019
San Marino	08.1%	2017
Nigeria	08.1%	2019
Puerto Rico	08.2%	2019
Samoa	08.4%	2019
Syria	08.4%	2019
France	08.4%	2019
American Virgin Islands	08.7%	2019
Uruguay	08.7%	2019
Ukraine	08.9%	2019
Micronesia	08.9%	2014
Aruba	08.9%	2011
Morocco	09.0%	2019
Gambia	09.1%	2019
Brunei	09.1%	2019
Greenland	09.1%	2015
Kiribati	09.3%	2015
Republic of the Congo	09.5%	2019
Mauritania	09.5%	2019
Colombia	09.7%	2019
Argentina	09.8%	2019
Italy	09.9%	2019
Djibouti	10.3%	2019
Barbados	10.3%	2019
Bahamas	10.4%	2019
Egypt	10.8%	2019
Tajikistan	11.0%	2019
Antigua and Barbuda	11.0%	2014
Dominica	11.0%	2001
Afghanistan	11.1%	2019
Somalia	11.4%	2019
Iran	11.4%	2019
Zambia	11.4%	2019
Algeria	11.7%	2019
Guyana	11.9%	2019
Costa Rica	11.9%	2019
Brazil	12.1%	2019
French Polynesia	12.1%	2019
South Sudan	12.2%	2019
Cape Verde	12.2%	2019
Albania	12.3%	2019
Serbia	12.7%	2019
New Caledonia	12.8%	2019
Iraq	12.8%	2019
Yemen	12.9%	2019
Curacao	13.0%	2013
Nauru	13.3%	2013
Sao Tome and Principe	13.4%	2019
Turkey	13.5%	2019
Haiti	13.8%	2019
Spain	14.0%	2019
Georgia	14.4%	2019
Jordan	14.7%	2019
Montenegro	14.9%	2019
Tunisia	16.0%	2019
Sudan	16.5%	2019
Armenia	17.0%	2019
Greece	17.2%	2019
North Macedonia	17.8%	2019
Botswana	18.2%	2019
Bosnia and Herzegovina	18.4%	2019
Libya	18.6%	2019
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	18.9%	2019
Gabon	20.0%	2019
Namibia	20.3%	2019
St. Lucia	20.7%	2019
Swaziland	22.1%	2019
Grenada	22.9%	2016
Lesotho	23.4%	2019
Kosovo	25.7%	2019
Palestine	26.2%	2019
South Africa	28.2%	2019
Venezuela	35.4%	2018
country	Unemployment rate in% of the workforce	time

Countries by youth unemployment

The following list sorts different countries according to the youth unemployment rate . People aged 15 to 24 are considered to be young people. The quota relates to those young people who are looking for or have work. Young people in training are not included. The source for all information is the World Bank .

country	Youth unemployment in%	time
Japan	03.7%	2019
Thailand	03.9%	2019
Germany	05.4%	2019
Philippines	06.2%	2019
Netherlands	06.4%	2019
Czech Republic	06.4%	2019
Mexico	07.1%	2019
Israel	07.3%	2019
Vietnam	07.3%	2019
United Arab Emirates	07.3%	2019
Switzerland	07.4%	2019
Austria	08.4%	2019
United States	08.5%	2019
Norway	09.3%	2019
Singapore	09.3%	2019
Denmark	09.8%	2019
Hong Kong	10.0%	2019
People's Republic of China	10.3%	2019
Canada	10.8%	2019
South Korea	11.0%	2019
United Kingdom	11.3%	2019
Malaysia	11.3%	2019
Poland	11.6%	2019
Australia	12.1%	2019
Romania	15.4%	2019
World average	15.4%	2019
Belgium	15.7%	2019
Russia	16.1%	2019
Finland	16.3%	2019
Indonesia	17.0%	2019
Sweden	17.8%	2018
Portugal	18.4%	2019
Ukraine	18.8%	2019
Chile	19.0%	2019
Colombia	19.0%	2019
France	19.1%	2019
Morocco	22.1%	2019
India	23.3%	2019
Turkey	23.7%	2019
Iraq	25.1%	2019
Argentina	25.3%	2019
Iran	27.4%	2019
Brazil	27.4%	2019
Saudi Arabia	28.6%	2019
Italy	29.3%	2019
Algeria	29.5%	2019
Serbia	30.0%	2019
Egypt	31.1%	2019
Spain	32.9%	2019
Greece	35.1%	2019
South Africa	56.0%	2019
country	Youth unemployment in%	time

See also

• unemployment
• List of the largest employers
• List of countries by number of workers
• List of countries by employment rate
• List of countries by average wage

Individual evidence

1. ^ The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. Accessed August 17, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) | Data. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
3. ^ Europe :: Gibraltar - The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
4. ^ South America :: Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) - The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
5. ^ Europe :: Isle of Man - The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
6. ^ Australia - Oceania :: Palau - The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
7. ^ Europe :: Monaco - The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
8. ^ Europe :: Faroe Islands - The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
9. ^ Europe :: Liechtenstein - The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
10. ^ Africa :: Seychelles - The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
11. ^ Europe :: Andorra - The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
12. ^ East Asia / Southeast Asia :: Taiwan - The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (national estimate) - Cayman Islands | Data. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (national estimate) - Marshall Islands | Data. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
15. ↑ Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (national estimate) - St. Kitts and Nevis | Data. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
16. ^ Africa :: Comoros - The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
17. ^ North America :: Bermuda - The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
18. ^ Europe :: San Marino - The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
19. ↑ Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (national estimate) - Micronesia, Fed. Sts. | Data. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
20. ↑ Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (national estimate) - Aruba | Data. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
21. ↑ Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (national estimate) - Greenland | Data. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
22. ^ Central America :: Antigua and Barbuda - The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
23. ↑ Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (national estimate) - Dominica | Data. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
24. ^ The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
25. ↑ Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (national estimate) - Nauru | Data. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
26. ↑ Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (national estimate) - Micronesia, Fed. Sts., Grenada | Data. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
27. ^ Kosovo Unemployment Rate. 2001-2019 - Kosovo Agency of Statistics. In: CEICData.com. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
28. ↑ Venezuela Forecast: Unemployment Rate. 1999 - 2018 - International Monetary Fund. In: CEICData.com. Retrieved August 19, 2020 . 
29. ↑ Unemployment, youth total (% of total labor force ages 15-24) (modeled ILO estimate) | Data. Retrieved August 17, 2017 (American English).