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Yemen / Jobs

How's the job market in Yemen?

2025 · data family: economicdata.dev

Higher than the year before

17.3%Unemployment rate, 2025

Compare every country: where Yemen ranks for 2025

Unemployment rate, 1991–2025Yemen's rate was 17.3% in 2025, against 4.8% for the world; since 1991 it ranged from 8.3% (1994) to 18.6% (2017).
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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)
YearYemenWorld
202517.3%4.8%
202417.0%4.8%
202316.9%4.8%
202217.2%5.2%
202118.3%6.0%
202018.0%6.6%
201917.2%5.6%
201817.6%5.8%
201718.6%5.9%
201618.4%6.0%
201517.9%6.0%
201413.5%6.0%
201313.7%6.1%
201213.5%6.2%
201113.3%6.1%
201012.8%6.3%
200912.8%6.4%
200812.7%5.8%
200712.5%5.8%
200612.3%6.0%
200512.2%6.2%
200412.1%6.3%
200312.0%6.5%
200211.8%6.4%
200111.7%6.2%
200011.6%6.1%
199911.5%6.3%
199810.8%6.2%
199710.2%6.0%
19969.6%6.0%
19959.0%5.9%
19948.3%5.8%
19938.3%5.5%
19928.4%5.3%
19918.4%5.1%

Get this data

This page's numbers, as JSON:

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

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

curl "https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/yem/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