The World Factbook. 2008.
Unemployment rate
| Country | Unemployment rate |
| Afghanistan | 40% (2005 est.) |
| Albania | 13% official rate, but may exceed 30% due to preponderance of near-subsistence farming (2007 est.) |
| Algeria | 14.1% (2007 est.) |
| American Samoa | 29.8% (2005) |
| Andorra | 0% (1996 est.) |
| Angola | extensive unemployment and underemployment affecting more than half the population (2001 est.) |
| Anguilla | 8% (2002) |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 11% (2001 est.) |
| Argentina | 8.9% (2007 est.) |
| Armenia | 7.1% (2007 est.) |
| Aruba | 6.9% (2005 est.) |
| Australia | 4.4% (November 2007 est.) |
| Austria | 4.3% (2007 est.) |
| Azerbaijan | 8.5% official rate (2005 est.) |
| Bahamas, The | 7.6% (2006 est.) |
| Bahrain | 15% (2005 est.) |
| Bangladesh | 2.5% (includes underemployment) (2007 est.) |
| Barbados | 10.7% (2003 est.) |
| Belarus | 1.6% officially registered unemployed; large number of underemployed workers (2005) |
| Belgium | 7.6% (2007 est.) |
| Belize | 9.4% (2006) |
| Benin | NA% |
| Bermuda | 2.1% (2004 est.) |
| Bhutan | 2.5% (2004) |
| Bolivia | 8% in urban areas; widespread underemployment (2006) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 45.5% official rate; grey economy may reduce actual unemployment to 25-30% (31 December 2004 est.) |
| Botswana | 23.8% (2004) |
| Brazil | 9.8% (2007 est.) |
| British Virgin Islands | 3.6% (1997) |
| Brunei | 4% (2006) |
| Bulgaria | 8% (2007 est.) |
| Burkina Faso | 77% |
| Burma | 5.2% (2007 est.) |
| Burundi | NA% |
| Cambodia | 2.5% (2000 est.) |
| Cameroon | 30% (2001 est.) |
| Canada | 5.9% (2007 est.) |
| Cape Verde | 21% (2000 est.) |
| Cayman Islands | 4.4% (2004) |
| Central African Republic | 8% (23% for Bangui) (2001 est.) |
| Chad | NA% |
| Chile | 7% (2007 est.) |
| China | 4% unemployment in urban areas; substantial unemployment and underemployment in rural areas (2007 est.) |
| Cocos (Keeling) Islands | 60% (2000 est.) |
| Colombia | 10.6% (2007 est.) |
| Comoros | 20% (1996 est.) |
| Congo, Democratic Republic of the | NA% |
| Congo, Republic of the | NA% |
| Cook Islands | 13.1% (2005) |
| Costa Rica | 5.5% (2007 est.) |
| Cote d’Ivoire | unemployment may have climbed to 40-50% as a result of the civil war |
| Croatia | 11.8% (2007 est.) |
| Cuba | 1.9% (2007 est.) |
| Cyprus | area under government control: 3.8% (2005 est.) area administered by Turkish Cypriots: 5.6% (2004 est.) (2007 est.) |
| Czech Republic | 6.6% (2007 est.) |
| Denmark | 3.5% (2007 est.) |
| Djibouti | 59% in urban areas, 83% in rural areas (2007 est.) |
| Dominica | 23% (2000 est.) |
| Dominican Republic | 15.5% (2007 est.) |
| Ecuador | 9.8% (2007 est.) |
| Egypt | 10.1% (2007 est.) |
| El Salvador | 6.6% official rate; but the economy has much underemployment (2007 est.) |
| Equatorial Guinea | 30% (1998 est.) |
| Eritrea | NA% |
| Estonia | 5.2% (2007 est.) |
| Ethiopia | NA% |
| European Union | 8.5% (2006 est.) |
| Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) | full employment; labor shortage (2001) |
| Faroe Islands | 2.1% (2006) |
| Fiji | 7.6% (1999) |
| Finland | 6.6% (2007 est.) |
| France | 8% (2007 est.) |
| French Polynesia | 11.7% (2005) |
| Gabon | 21% (2006 est.) |
| Gambia, The | NA% |
| Gaza Strip | 34.8% (2006) |
| Georgia | 13.6% (2006 est.) |
| Germany | 9.1% note: this is the International Labor Organization’s estimated rate for international comparisons; Germany’s Federal Employment Office estimated a seasonally adjusted rate of 10.8% (2007 est.) |
| Ghana | 11% (2000 est.) |
| Gibraltar | 3% (2005 est.) |
| Greece | 8.4% (2007 est.) |
| Greenland | 9.3% (2005 est.) |
| Grenada | 12.5% (2000) |
| Guam | 11.4% (2002 est.) |
| Guatemala | 3.2% (2005 est.) |
| Guernsey | 0.9% (March 2006 est.) |
| Guinea | NA% |
| Guinea-Bissau | NA% |
| Guyana | 9.1% (understated) (2000) |
| Haiti | widespread unemployment and underemployment; more than two-thirds of the labor force do not have formal jobs (2002 est.) |
| Honduras | 27.8% (2007 est.) |
| Hong Kong | 4.2% (2007 est.) |
| Hungary | 7.1% (2007 est.) |
| Iceland | 1% (2007 est.) |
| India | 7.2% (2007 est.) |
| Indonesia | 9.7% (2007 est.) |
| Iran | 11% according to the Iranian government (June 2007) |
| Iraq | 18% to 30% (2006 est.) |
| Ireland | 5% (2007 est.) |
| Isle of Man | 1.5% (December 2006 est.) |
| Israel | 7.6% (2007 est.) |
| Italy | 6.7% (2007 est.) |
| Jamaica | 10.2% (2007 est.) |
| Japan | 4% (2007 est.) |
| Jersey | 2.2% (2006 est.) |
| Jordan | 13.5% official rate; unofficial rate is approximately 30% (2007 est.) |
| Kazakhstan | 7.1% (2007 est.) |
| Kenya | 40% (2001 est.) |
| Kiribati | 2% official rate; underemployment 70% (1992 est.) |
| Korea, North | NA% |
| Korea, South | 3.2% (2007 est.) |
| Kosovo | 40% (2006 est.) |
| Kosovo | 50% (2007 est.) |
| Kuwait | 2.2% (2004 est.) |
| Kyrgyzstan | 18% (2004 est.) |
| Laos | 2.4% (2005 est.) |
| Latvia | 5.9% (2007 est.) |
| Lebanon | 20% (2006 est.) |
| Lesotho | 45% (2002) |
| Liberia | 85% (2003 est.) |
| Libya | 30% (2004 est.) |
| Liechtenstein | 1.3% (September 2002) |
| Lithuania | 3.2% note: based on survey data, official registered unemployment of 5.7% (2007 est.) |
| Luxembourg | 4.4% (2007 est.) |
| Macau | 3.1% (2006) |
| Macedonia | 35% (2007 est.) |
| Malawi | NA% |
| Malaysia | 3.1% (2007 est.) |
| Maldives | NEGL% (2003 est.) |
| Mali | 14.6% (2001 est.) |
| Malta | 6.8% (2005 est.) |
| Marshall Islands | 30.9% (2000 est.) |
| Mauritania | 20% (2004 est.) |
| Mauritius | 9.2% (2007 est.) |
| Mayotte | 25.4% (2005) |
| Mexico | 3.7% plus underemployment of perhaps 25% (2007 est.) |
| Micronesia, Federated States of | 22% (2000 est.) |
| Moldova | 2.1%; note – roughly 25% of working age Moldovans are employed abroad (2007 est.) |
| Monaco | 0% (2005) |
| Mongolia | 3.2% (2006) |
| Montenegro | 14.7% (2007 est.) |
| Montserrat | 6% (1998 est.) |
| Morocco | 15% (2007 est.) |
| Mozambique | 21% (1997 est.) |
| Namibia | 5.3% (2006 est.) |
| Nauru | 90% (2004 est.) |
| Nepal | 42% (2004 est.) |
| Netherlands | 4.5% (2007 est.) |
| Netherlands Antilles | 17% (2002 est.) |
| New Caledonia | 17.1% (2004) |
| New Zealand | 3.5% (2007 est.) |
| Nicaragua | 5.6% plus underemployment of 46.5% (2007 est.) |
| Niger | NA% |
| Nigeria | 5.8% (2006 est.) |
| Niue | 12% (2001) |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 3.9% (2001) |
| Norway | 2.4% (2007 est.) |
| Oman | 15% (2004 est.) |
| Pakistan | 7.5% plus substantial underemployment (2007 est.) |
| Palau | 4.2% (2005 est.) |
| Panama | 7.2% (2007 est.) |
| Papua New Guinea | 1.9% up to 80% in urban areas (2004) |
| Paraguay | 11.4% (2007 est.) |
| Peru | 7.4% in metropolitan Lima; widespread underemployment (2007 est.) |
| Philippines | 7.3% (2007 est.) |
| Poland | 12.8% (2007 est.) |
| Portugal | 8% (2007 est.) |
| Puerto Rico | 12% (2002) |
| Qatar | 0.7% (2007 est.) |
| Romania | 4.5% (2007 est.) |
| Russia | 5.9% (November 2007 est.) |
| Rwanda | NA% |
| Saint Helena | 14% (1998 est.) |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 4.5% (1997) |
| Saint Lucia | 20% (2003 est.) |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 10.3% (1999) |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 15% (2001 est.) |
| Samoa | NA% |
| San Marino | 3.8% (2004) |
| Sao Tome and Principe | NA% |
| Saudi Arabia | 13% among Saudi males only (local bank estimate; some estimates range as high as 25%) (2004 est.) |
| Senegal | 48%; note – urban youth 45% (2001 est.) |
| Serbia | 18.8% (2007 est.) |
| Seychelles | NA% |
| Sierra Leone | NA% |
| Singapore | 1.7% (2007 est.) |
| Slovakia | 8.6% (2007 est.) |
| Slovenia | 4.6% (2007 est.) |
| Solomon Islands | NA% |
| Somalia | NA% |
| South Africa | 24.2% (2007 est.) |
| Spain | 7.6% (2007 est.) |
| Sri Lanka | 6.3% (2007 est.) |
| Sudan | 18.7% (2002 est.) |
| Suriname | 9.5% (2004) |
| Swaziland | 40% (2006 est.) |
| Sweden | 4.5% (2007 est.) |
| Switzerland | 3.1% (2007 est.) |
| Syria | 10% (2007 est.) |
| Taiwan | 3.9% (2007) |
| Tajikistan | 12% (2004 est.) |
| Tanzania | NA% |
| Thailand | 1.7% (2007 est.) |
| Timor-Leste | 50% estimated; note – unemployment in urban areas reached 20%; data do not include underemployed (2001 est.) |
| Togo | NA% |
| Tokelau | NA% |
| Tonga | 13% (FY03/04 est.) |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 6% (2007 est.) |
| Tunisia | 13.9% (2007 est.) |
| Turkey | 9.7% plus underemployment of 4% (2007 est.) |
| Turkmenistan | 60% (2004 est.) |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 10% (1997 est.) |
| Tuvalu | NA% |
| Uganda | NA% |
| Ukraine | 2.5% officially registered; large number of unregistered or underemployed workers; the International Labor Organization calculates that Ukraine’s real unemployment level is nearly 7% (2007 est.) |
| United Arab Emirates | 2.4% (2001) |
| United Kingdom | 5.4% (2007 est.) |
| United States | 4.6% (2007 est.) |
| Uruguay | 9.2% (2007 est.) |
| Uzbekistan | 0.8% officially by the Ministry of Labor, plus another 20% underemployed (2007 est.) |
| Vanuatu | 1.7% (1999) |
| Venezuela | 9.1% (2007 est.) |
| Vietnam | 5.1% (2007 est.) |
| Virgin Islands | 6.2% (2004) |
| Wallis and Futuna | 15.2% (2003) |
| West Bank | 18.6% (2006) |
| Western Sahara | NA% |
| World | 30% combined unemployment and underemployment in many non-industrialized countries; developed countries typically 4%-12% unemployment (2007 est.) |
| Yemen | 35% (2003 est.) |
| Zambia | 50% (2000 est.) |
| Zimbabwe | 80% (2005 est.) |