{
 "topic": "jobs",
 "site": "economicdata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "mwi",
  "name": "Malawi",
  "level": "country",
  "parent": "world",
  "path": "mw",
  "slug": "mw"
 },
 "question": "How's the job market in Malawi?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "About the same as the year before",
  "value": 5.072,
  "unit": "%",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Unemployment rate, 2025",
  "lines": [
   "no change from 2024 (5.1%)",
   "World 4.8% the same year",
   "Higher than in 88 of the 181 countries with a 2025 figure"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2025",
 "as_of_label": "2025",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "jobs-world-rate",
   "title": "Unemployment rate, 1991–2025",
   "description": "Malawi's rate was 5.1% in 2025, against 4.8% for the world; since 1991 it ranged from 4.7% (1997) to 5.7% (2020).",
   "indicator": "Unemployment, % of the labour force, yearly, modelled ILO estimate (WDI SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS)",
   "subtitle": "Percent of the labour force, yearly (modelled ILO estimate), with the world rate beside it.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": "%"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "line",
     "name": "Malawi",
     "cls": "s1",
     "points": [
      [
       1991,
       4.9
      ],
      [
       1992,
       5.064
      ],
      [
       1993,
       4.988
      ],
      [
       1994,
       5.368
      ],
      [
       1995,
       4.895
      ],
      [
       1996,
       4.94
      ],
      [
       1997,
       4.69
      ],
      [
       1998,
       4.921
      ],
      [
       1999,
       5.002
      ],
      [
       2000,
       5.045
      ],
      [
       2001,
       5.221
      ],
      [
       2002,
       5.248
      ],
      [
       2003,
       5.165
      ],
      [
       2004,
       4.964
      ],
      [
       2005,
       4.935
      ],
      [
       2006,
       4.954
      ],
      [
       2007,
       4.876
      ],
      [
       2008,
       4.796
      ],
      [
       2009,
       4.732
      ],
      [
       2010,
       4.78
      ],
      [
       2011,
       4.829
      ],
      [
       2012,
       4.949
      ],
      [
       2013,
       4.978
      ],
      [
       2014,
       4.967
      ],
      [
       2015,
       4.953
      ],
      [
       2016,
       5.011
      ],
      [
       2017,
       5.046
      ],
      [
       2018,
       5.021
      ],
      [
       2019,
       4.964
      ],
      [
       2020,
       5.72
      ],
      [
       2021,
       5.652
      ],
      [
       2022,
       5.02
      ],
      [
       2023,
       5.009
      ],
      [
       2024,
       5.051
      ],
      [
       2025,
       5.072
      ]
     ],
     "gap": 1
    },
    {
     "type": "line",
     "name": "World",
     "cls": "ctx",
     "points": [
      [
       1991,
       5.119
      ],
      [
       1992,
       5.276
      ],
      [
       1993,
       5.544
      ],
      [
       1994,
       5.789
      ],
      [
       1995,
       5.92
      ],
      [
       1996,
       5.984
      ],
      [
       1997,
       6.01
      ],
      [
       1998,
       6.159
      ],
      [
       1999,
       6.278
      ],
      [
       2000,
       6.111
      ],
      [
       2001,
       6.19
      ],
      [
       2002,
       6.412
      ],
      [
       2003,
       6.484
      ],
      [
       2004,
       6.33
      ],
      [
       2005,
       6.224
      ],
      [
       2006,
       5.974
      ],
      [
       2007,
       5.775
      ],
      [
       2008,
       5.824
      ],
      [
       2009,
       6.41
      ],
      [
       2010,
       6.281
      ],
      [
       2011,
       6.149
      ],
      [
       2012,
       6.152
      ],
      [
       2013,
       6.099
      ],
      [
       2014,
       5.957
      ],
      [
       2015,
       5.999
      ],
      [
       2016,
       5.971
      ],
      [
       2017,
       5.898
      ],
      [
       2018,
       5.76
      ],
      [
       2019,
       5.588
      ],
      [
       2020,
       6.588
      ],
      [
       2021,
       6.046
      ],
      [
       2022,
       5.235
      ],
      [
       2023,
       4.85
      ],
      [
       2024,
       4.806
      ],
      [
       2025,
       4.791
      ]
     ],
     "gap": 1
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Most countries' figures are the ILO's modelled estimates: where a labour force survey is old or missing, a model fills the gap, so small year-to-year changes are often the model, not the economy.",
  "Unemployment counts people looking for work; in countries with large informal economies, few people can afford to be unemployed, so a low rate does not mean plenty of good jobs."
 ],
 "method": "The latest year is compared with the year before: a rise of 1 point or more is 'much higher', 0.3 or more 'higher', a change within 0.3 'about the same', and the same downward.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "World Bank WDI, SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS: unemployment, % of labour force (modelled ILO estimate), updated 2026-10-08",
   "url": "https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS",
   "license": "CC BY 4.0 (World Bank)"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "year": 2025,
  "value": 5.072,
  "prev": 5.051,
  "change": 0.021,
  "source": "worldbank-SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS.json"
 },
 "api": {
  "now": "/data/places/mwi/jobs.json",
  "source": "https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/mwi/indicator/SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS?format=json&date=1991:2025",
  "source_label": "The World Bank API it comes from (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-24T18:01:14+00:00"
}