Unemployment rate

The share of the labour force without a job but looking for one.

The unemployment rate is the share of the labour force that has no job but is available for and looking for work. The labour force is everyone of working age who has a job or is looking for one. These are modelled estimates from the International Labour Organization (ILO), which fills gaps in national labour force surveys so that countries can be compared. The World Bank republishes them.

World map · Unemployment rate

Year

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (updated 2026-10-08) · fetched 26 Oct 2026

Over time · Unemployment rate

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (updated 2026-10-08) · fetched 26 Oct 2026

Years

Show the numbers

Download CSV JSON

Every country and year, with the source on each row.

About the author

Hello there, I’m Klaus Jürgen Folz. I studied Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil, and I work in Austria as a lead Python and Power BI developer. I built Data Mechanics because good decisions start with facts. Public data is often scattered, hard to find or locked behind paywalls, and too much of what we read about the world is biased. Here, every number is shown as it was published, next to its source, so anyone can check it, compare countries and leaders, and draw their own conclusions.

Follow on LinkedIn Follow on GitHub