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Gabon / Jobs

How's the job market in Gabon?

2025 · data family: economicdata.dev

About the same as the year before

20.2%Unemployment rate, 2025

Compare every country: where Gabon ranks for 2025

Unemployment rate, 1991–2025Gabon's rate was 20.2% in 2025, against 4.8% for the world; since 1991 it ranged from 16.9% (2005) to 21.3% (2020).
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Indicator: Unemployment, % of the labour force, yearly, modelled ILO estimate (WDI SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS)Source: World Bank WDI, SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS: unemployment, % of labour force (modelled ILO estimate), updated 2026-10-08
Show the numbers (35 rows)
YearGabonWorld
202520.2%4.8%
202420.1%4.8%
202320.2%4.8%
202220.3%5.2%
202121.2%6.0%
202021.3%6.6%
201920.4%5.6%
201820.5%5.8%
201720.3%5.9%
201620.1%6.0%
201519.9%6.0%
201419.9%6.0%
201319.7%6.1%
201219.7%6.2%
201119.9%6.1%
201020.4%6.3%
200919.8%6.4%
200819.2%5.8%
200718.3%5.8%
200617.8%6.0%
200516.9%6.2%
200417.1%6.3%
200317.1%6.5%
200217.4%6.4%
200117.8%6.2%
200017.8%6.1%
199917.6%6.3%
199817.2%6.2%
199717.2%6.0%
199617.3%6.0%
199517.4%5.9%
199417.8%5.8%
199317.8%5.5%
199217.7%5.3%
199117.2%5.1%

Get this data

This page's numbers, as JSON:

curl https://visualizedata.org/data/places/gab/jobs.json

The World Bank API it comes from (live, no key):

curl "https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/gab/indicator/SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS?format=json&date=1991:2025"

Open the JSON

What this can't tell you

  • 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.

How the answer is decided

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