The unemployment rate in % of the population
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Women and youth hit hardest by unemployment.
Nearly half of all the world’s youth (621 million) are not employed, in school or in training. Today’s youth are 3x more likely to be unemployed than an adult.
120 million more youth entered the workforce in 2013, but 80% couldn’t find work.
Top 20 countries with the highest unemployment rate:
- Syria – 50%
- Senegal – 48%
- Djibouti – 40%
- Djibouti – 40
- Kiribati – 38
- Marshall Islands – 36%
- Yemen – 35%
- Namibia – 34%
- Venezuela – 33%
- Palestine – 28%
- Lesotho – 28%
- Eswatini – 28%
- Gabon -28%
- South Africa – 28%
- Mayotte (France) – 25%
- Mozambique 25%
- Grenada – 24%
- Afghanistan – 24%
- Dominica – 23%
- Nauru – 23%
Top 20 countries with the lowest unemployment rate:
- Cambodia – 0.3%
- Isle of Man – 0.7%
- Thailand – 0.7%
- Gibraltar (UK) – 1.0%
- Guernsey (UK) – 1.0%
- Faroe Islands (Denmark) – 1.2%
- Jersey (UK) – 1.3%
- Laos – 1.5%
- United Arab Emirates – 1.6%
- Palau – 1.7%
- Czech Republic – 1.9%
- Macau (China) – 2.0%
- Monaco – 2.0%
- Kuwait – 2.1%
- Liechtenstein – 2.1%
- Singapore – 2.1%
- Vietnam – 2.2%
- Guatemala – 2.3%
- Japan – 2.4%
- Switzerland – 2.4%
