Countries with the highest
Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate)

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Top countries

0.08.617.125.734.2EswatiniEswatini: 34.20%34.2South AfricaSouth Africa: 32.39%32.4DjiboutiDjibouti: 26.02%26.0BotswanaBotswana: 24.48%24.5GabonGabon: 20.15%20.2Congo, Rep.Congo, Rep.: 19.88%19.9NamibiaNamibia: 19.29%19.3Somalia, Fed. Rep.Somalia, Fed. Rep.: 18.95%18.9LibyaLibya: 18.76%18.8St. Vincent and the GrenadinesSt. Vincent and the Grenadines: 18.00%18.0Yemen, Rep.Yemen, Rep.: 17.32%17.3JordanJordan: 16.54%16.5

Full table

#CountryValue
101 Paraguay 4.80%
102 Kazakhstan 4.77%
103 United Kingdom 4.75%
104 Norway 4.64%
105 Ireland 4.63%
106 Uzbekistan 4.62%
107 China 4.62%
108 Hungary 4.52%
109 Maldives 4.51%
110 Congo, Dem. Rep. 4.43%
111 Turkmenistan 4.27%
112 India 4.22%
113 United States 4.20%
114 Australia 4.09%
115 Sri Lanka 4.01%
116 Netherlands 3.87%
117 Comoros 3.82%
118 Bangladesh 3.78%
119 Malaysia 3.76%
120 Germany 3.71%
121 Iceland 3.63%
122 Cameroon 3.60%
123 Korea, Dem. People's Rep. 3.55%
124 Bulgaria 3.54%
125 Kyrgyz Republic 3.53%
126 Israel 3.49%
127 Burkina Faso 3.48%
128 Belarus 3.38%
129 Trinidad and Tobago 3.33%
130 Ethiopia 3.32%
131 Ecuador 3.31%
132 El Salvador 3.30%
133 Jamaica 3.29%
134 Oman 3.25%
135 Indonesia 3.24%
136 Bhutan 3.23%
137 Slovenia 3.18%
138 Sierra Leone 3.15%
139 Nigeria 3.06%
140 Myanmar 3.05%
141 Madagascar 3.04%
142 Saudi Arabia 3.04%
143 Ghana 2.98%
144 Poland 2.98%
145 Bolivia 2.97%
146 Malta 2.90%
147 Liberia 2.88%
148 Mali 2.83%
149 Czechia 2.83%
150 Singapore 2.82%