Unemployment Rate

Unemployed as a share of the total labour force. IMF WEO, 2019–2026.

Source: IMF World Economic Outlook (Apr 2026) Licence: IMF terms — public data Unit: % Parsed: 2026-06-28 Open source ↗

Method: Years after the latest actual are IMF estimates/projections, not outturns.

↓ Download CSV

Avg (2026)
6.5%
0.00pp vs 2025
Improving
9
of 105 tracked
Declining
6
period over period
Stable
90
±0.5pp band

Unemployment rate

Interactive — choose a period, search a country, switch between bars, table and map.

Trend over time

Group average by period, 2019–2026.

1.8%8.3%14.8%21.3%27.7% 20192020202120222023202420252026
AmericasEurope & Central AsiaEast Asia & PacificMiddle East & North AfricaSouth AsiaSub-Saharan AfricaAdvanced / other

Movers

Biggest period-over-period changes.

Top risers

EntityNowChange
🇧🇴 Bolivia 4.5% +1.2pp
🇮🇷 Iran 9.2% +1.2pp
🇨🇴 Colombia 9% +1.0pp
🇭🇳 Honduras 6.8% +0.90pp
🇧🇷 Brazil 6.8% +0.80pp

Top fallers

EntityNowChange
🇹🇳 Tunisia 0% -15.2pp
🇯🇲 Jamaica 0% -3.4pp
🇬🇷 Greece 7.4% -1.5pp
🇺🇦 Ukraine 10.2% -1.4pp
🇲🇦 Morocco 12.2% -0.80pp

By group

Change by group, latest period.

Americas +0.30pp
Sub-Saharan Africa +0.20pp
East Asia & Pacific 0.00pp
Europe & Central Asia -0.10pp
South Asia -0.10pp
Middle East & North Africa -0.60pp
GroupMembersAvgChange
Sub-Saharan Africa 5 22.2% +0.20pp
Middle East & North Africa 5 10.7% -0.60pp
Americas 25 6% +0.30pp
Europe & Central Asia 49 6% -0.10pp
South Asia 2 5.9% -0.10pp
East Asia & Pacific 17 3.6% 0.00pp