Countries by Unemployment

Global country ranking by unemployment with latest available values, source notes, country links and economic context from World Bank / public data sources.
INDICATOR: Unemployment
UNIT: percent
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
CACHE: live
UPDATED: 2026-06-09 04:03:07

Full ranking · Unemployment

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Rank Country Latest value Class Country page
1 South Africa 32.39 open
2 Jordan 16.54 open
3 Tunisia 15.11 open
4 Algeria 11.63 open
5 Spain 10.38 open
6 Ukraine 9.83 open
7 Finland 9.46 open
8 Morocco 9 open
9 Chile 8.97 open
10 Sweden 8.69 open
11 Greece 8.54 open
12 Turkey 8.52 open
13 Estonia 8.31 open
14 Colombia 8.29 open
15 France 7.54 open
16 Argentina 7.15 open
17 Serbia 7.12 open
18 Canada 6.91 open
19 Egypt 6.78 open
20 Lithuania 6.73 open
21 Latvia 6.57 open
22 Italy 6.39 open
23 Luxembourg 6.34 open
24 Portugal 6.16 open
25 Romania 5.99 open
26 Brazil 5.97 open
27 Belgium 5.91 open
28 Austria 5.58 open
29 Denmark 5.53 open
30 Kenya 5.45 open
31 Pakistan 5.42 open
32 Slovakia 5.36 open
33 Peru 5.12 open
34 New Zealand 5.08 open
35 Croatia 5 open
36 Switzerland 4.87 open
37 Kazakhstan 4.77 open
38 United Kingdom 4.75 open
39 Norway 4.64 open
40 Ireland 4.63 open
41 China 4.62 open
42 Hungary 4.52 open
43 India 4.22 open
44 United States 4.2 open
45 Australia 4.09 open
46 Netherlands 3.87 open
47 Bangladesh 3.78 open
48 Malaysia 3.76 open
49 Germany 3.71 open
50 Iceland 3.63 open
51 Bulgaria 3.54 open
52 Israel 3.49 open
53 Ethiopia 3.32 open
54 Oman 3.25 open
55 Indonesia 3.24 open
56 Slovenia 3.18 open
57 Nigeria 3.06 open
58 Saudi Arabia 3.04 open
59 Ghana 2.98 open
60 Poland 2.98 open
61 Czech Republic 2.83 open
62 Singapore 2.82 open
63 Hong Kong 2.8 open
64 South Korea 2.68 open
65 Mexico 2.67 open
66 Japan 2.45 open
67 Philippines 2.24 open
68 Kuwait 2.18 open
69 United Arab Emirates 2.17 open
70 Russia 2.13 open
71 Vietnam 1.52 open
72 Bahrain 1.1 open
73 Thailand 0.78 open
74 Qatar 0.13 open

Ranking interpretation

context

This ranking uses the latest available value in the local indicator dataset.

Production version: ranking tables should show source timestamp, latest available year and fallback status.

Countries by Unemployment: data context and use

This page is part of the Economy Data indicator system. It provides structured country-level economic data, historical series, rankings and comparison views for researchers, students, journalists and decision makers. The page combines indicator metadata, country context, latest available values, ranking information and source notes.

The selected indicator is Unemployment for Germany. The data are designed for quick comparison across countries and for deeper interpretation together with related macroeconomic indicators such as GDP growth, government debt, unemployment, current account balance, exports, imports, population and inequality.

Keyphrase synonyms: unemployment by country, global unemployment ranking, country ranking unemployment, best countries by unemployment.