# Countries by unemployment rate, 2025

All 181 values come from World Bank for 2025, so the places are comparable. 5 countries have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `unemployment_rate`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Unemployed people as a percentage of the labour force, using the survey definition of unemployment: without work, available and looking for work. Spain: EPA, aged 16 and over. EU: Labour Force Survey, aged 15 to 74. United States: civilian labour force aged 16 and over, from the Current Population Survey for the nation and from BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics models, consistent with that survey, for states and counties. Other countries and the World: ILO modelled estimates published by the World Bank, aged 15 and over.
- Source: World Bank, Unemployment, total, % of total labor force, modeled ILO estimate (SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS) (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-09
- Citation: World Bank, World Development Indicators, modelled estimate. Unemployment, total, % of total labor force, modeled ILO estimate (SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS. Retrieved 2026-10-09.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/unemployment-rate/countries
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/unemployment-rate/countries.csv

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Eswatini | 34.2 |
| 2 | South Africa | 32.39 |
| 3 | Djibouti | 26.02 |
| 4 | Botswana | 24.48 |
| 5 | Gabon | 20.15 |
| 6 | Republic of the Congo | 19.88 |
| 7 | Namibia | 19.29 |
| 8 | Somalia | 18.95 |
| 9 | Libya | 18.76 |
| 10 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 18 |
| 11 | Yemen | 17.32 |
| 12 | Jordan | 16.54 |
| 13 | Lesotho | 16.32 |
| 14 | Iraq | 15.49 |
| 15 | Tunisia | 15.11 |
| 16 | Haiti | 14.94 |
| 17 | Angola | 14.11 |
| 18 | Montenegro | 13.57 |
| 19 | Syria | 13.57 |
| 20 | Afghanistan | 13.35 |
| 21 | Armenia | 12.87 |
| 22 | North Macedonia | 12.26 |
| 23 | Georgia | 12.1 |
| 24 | Guyana | 11.96 |
| 25 | Cape Verde | 11.94 |
| 26 | French Polynesia | 11.66 |
| 27 | Algeria | 11.63 |
| 28 | U.S. Virgin Islands | 11.44 |
| 29 | Rwanda | 11.36 |
| 30 | New Caledonia | 11.17 |
| 31 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 11.04 |
| 32 | Albania | 10.93 |
| 33 | Nepal | 10.47 |
| 34 | Spain | 10.38 |
| 35 | Mauritania | 10.32 |
| 36 | Finland | 9.46 |
| 37 | Saint Lucia | 9.45 |
| 38 | Zimbabwe | 9.29 |
| 39 | Bahamas | 9.21 |
| 40 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 9.13 |
| 41 | Morocco | 9 |
| 42 | Chile | 8.97 |
| 43 | Belize | 8.86 |
| 44 | Sweden | 8.69 |
| 45 | Greece | 8.54 |
| 46 | Türkiye | 8.52 |
| 47 | Panama | 8.36 |
| 48 | Equatorial Guinea | 8.34 |
| 49 | Estonia | 8.31 |
| 50 | Iran | 8.3 |
| 51 | Colombia | 8.29 |
| 52 | Suriname | 7.83 |
| 53 | France | 7.54 |
| 54 | Uruguay | 7.52 |
| 55 | Argentina | 7.15 |
| 56 | Serbia | 7.12 |
| 57 | Tajikistan | 6.93 |
| 58 | Canada | 6.91 |
| 59 | Costa Rica | 6.84 |
| 60 | Egypt | 6.78 |
| 61 | Lithuania | 6.73 |
| 62 | Mozambique | 6.63 |
| 63 | Latvia | 6.57 |
| 64 | Barbados | 6.52 |
| 65 | Gambia | 6.52 |
| 66 | Italy | 6.39 |
| 67 | Luxembourg | 6.34 |
| 68 | Central African Republic | 6.25 |
| 69 | Portugal | 6.16 |
| 70 | Romania | 5.99 |
| 71 | Puerto Rico | 5.99 |
| 72 | Eritrea | 5.98 |
| 73 | Brazil | 5.97 |
| 74 | Zambia | 5.92 |
| 75 | Belgium | 5.91 |
| 76 | Mauritius | 5.64 |
| 77 | Austria | 5.58 |
| 78 | Guam | 5.57 |
| 79 | Denmark | 5.53 |
| 80 | Azerbaijan | 5.46 |
| 81 | Kenya | 5.45 |
| 82 | Pakistan | 5.42 |
| 83 | Slovakia | 5.36 |
| 84 | Fiji | 5.35 |
| 85 | Venezuela | 5.31 |
| 86 | Brunei | 5.28 |
| 87 | Mongolia | 5.23 |
| 88 | Guinea | 5.16 |
| 89 | Peru | 5.12 |
| 90 | Dominican Republic | 5.09 |
| 91 | New Zealand | 5.08 |
| 92 | Vanuatu | 5.07 |
| 93 | Malawi | 5.07 |
| 94 | Nicaragua | 5.04 |
| 95 | Croatia | 5 |
| 96 | Samoa | 5 |
| 97 | Cyprus | 4.92 |
| 98 | Honduras | 4.92 |
| 99 | Switzerland | 4.87 |
| 100 | Paraguay | 4.8 |
| 101 | Kazakhstan | 4.77 |
| 102 | United Kingdom | 4.75 |
| 103 | Norway | 4.64 |
| 104 | Ireland | 4.63 |
| 105 | Uzbekistan | 4.62 |
| 106 | China | 4.62 |
| 107 | Hungary | 4.52 |
| 108 | Maldives | 4.51 |
| 109 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 4.43 |
| 110 | Turkmenistan | 4.27 |
| 111 | India | 4.22 |
| 112 | United States | 4.2 |
| 113 | Australia | 4.09 |
| 114 | Sri Lanka | 4.01 |
| 115 | Netherlands | 3.87 |
| 116 | Comoros | 3.82 |
| 117 | Bangladesh | 3.78 |
| 118 | Malaysia | 3.76 |
| 119 | Germany | 3.71 |
| 120 | Iceland | 3.63 |
| 121 | Cameroon | 3.6 |
| 122 | North Korea | 3.55 |
| 123 | Bulgaria | 3.54 |
| 124 | Kyrgyzstan | 3.53 |
| 125 | Israel | 3.49 |
| 126 | Burkina Faso | 3.48 |
| 127 | Belarus | 3.38 |
| 128 | Trinidad and Tobago | 3.33 |
| 129 | Ethiopia | 3.32 |
| 130 | Ecuador | 3.31 |
| 131 | El Salvador | 3.3 |
| 132 | Jamaica | 3.29 |
| 133 | Oman | 3.25 |
| 134 | Indonesia | 3.24 |
| 135 | Bhutan | 3.23 |
| 136 | Slovenia | 3.18 |
| 137 | Sierra Leone | 3.15 |
| 138 | Nigeria | 3.06 |
| 139 | Myanmar | 3.05 |
| 140 | Madagascar | 3.04 |
| 141 | Saudi Arabia | 3.04 |
| 142 | Ghana | 2.98 |
| 143 | Poland | 2.98 |
| 144 | Bolivia | 2.97 |
| 145 | Malta | 2.9 |
| 146 | Liberia | 2.88 |
| 147 | Mali | 2.83 |
| 148 | Czechia | 2.83 |
| 149 | Singapore | 2.82 |
| 150 | Hong Kong | 2.8 |
| 151 | Uganda | 2.75 |
| 152 | Senegal | 2.74 |
| 153 | South Korea | 2.68 |
| 154 | Guinea-Bissau | 2.67 |
| 154 | Mexico | 2.67 |
| 156 | Guatemala | 2.6 |
| 157 | Papua New Guinea | 2.57 |
| 158 | Japan | 2.45 |
| 159 | Macao | 2.35 |
| 160 | Côte d’Ivoire | 2.32 |
| 161 | Philippines | 2.24 |
| 162 | Kuwait | 2.18 |
| 163 | United Arab Emirates | 2.17 |
| 164 | Russia | 2.13 |
| 165 | Tonga | 2.01 |
| 166 | Togo | 2 |
| 167 | Cuba | 1.75 |
| 168 | Timor-Leste | 1.59 |
| 169 | Benin | 1.59 |
| 170 | Tanzania | 1.57 |
| 171 | Vietnam | 1.52 |
| 172 | Moldova | 1.51 |
| 173 | Solomon Islands | 1.43 |
| 174 | Laos | 1.19 |
| 175 | Bahrain | 1.1 |
| 176 | Chad | 1.06 |
| 177 | Burundi | 0.92 |
| 178 | Thailand | 0.78 |
| 179 | Niger | 0.39 |
| 180 | Cambodia | 0.26 |
| 181 | Qatar | 0.13 |