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Indicators / Economy

Unemployment rate

% · World Bank World Development Indicators, SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS, via economicdata.dev · modelled ILO estimate

Countries with any figure: 186
Years: 1991–2025
Compare on: 2025 181 countries
Newest year: 2025 181 countries
Every year: 181 countries
Stop before 2025: 5 countries

Statistical offices report at different speeds, so the newest year usually has fewer countries than the years before it. A country's "latest" figure elsewhere on this site can therefore be from different years for different countries; rankings only compare countries with a figure for the same year.

Compare countries on this indicator

Countries with a figure for Unemployment rate, each yearThe best-covered year has 186 countries. 2025 is the last year with at least 90% of that (181); 2025 has 181.

Show the numbers (35 rows)

Year	Countries with a figure
2025	181
2024	181
2023	183
2022	185
2021	186
2020	186
2019	186
2018	186
2017	186
2016	186
2015	186
2014	186
2013	186
2012	186
2011	186
2010	186
2009	186
2008	186
2007	186
2006	186
2005	186
2004	186
2003	186
2002	186
2001	186
2000	186
1999	186
1998	186
1997	186
1996	186
1995	186
1994	186
1993	186
1992	186
1991	186

Which countries have figures for Unemployment rate, by year186 countries have at least one figure from 1991 to 2025; 181 have every year, 0 have gaps, and 5 stop before 2025.

Point at a row to see the country and its years.

Years with a figure
Country stops before 2025
End of 2025, the last year at least 90% of countries report

Countries with no figure since before 2025

Country	Last figure	Years with a figure
Ukraine	2021	1991–2021
Palestinian Territories	2022	1991–2022
Sudan	2022	1991–2022
Lebanon	2023	1991–2023
South Sudan	2023	1991–2023

Get this data

This page's numbers, as JSON:

curl https://visualizedata.org/data/indicators/unemployment-rate.json

Every country from economicdata.dev (live, no key; World Bank data, this exact version):

curl "https://api.economicdata.dev/v1/world-macro@2026-10-26.4c468380bf/download/world-macro.parquet"

Open the JSON

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators: SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS (CC BY 4.0), modelled ILO estimate
Read through economicdata.dev, dataset world-macro, version 2026-10-26.4c468380bf.
economicdata.dev re-reads the World Bank daily; the World Bank updates several times a year.
Countries are the datasites geo registry's; regional and income-group aggregates are left out.
Built 2026-10-26.