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Unemployment

% of labour force (ILO estimate)

Share of the labour force without work and seeking employment, modelled ILO estimate.

Median : 6.0 % · 53 countries · latest available value : 2025

  1. 1 Eswatini 34.2 % 2025 −0.4 pp
  2. 2 South Africa 32.4 % 2025 +0.1 pp
  3. 3 Djibouti 26.0 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  4. 4 Botswana 24.5 % 2025 +0.7 pp
  5. 5 Gabon 20.2 % 2025 +0.1 pp
  6. 6 Republic of the Congo 19.9 % 2025 −0.0 pp
  7. 7 Namibia 19.3 % 2025 +0.1 pp
  8. 8 Somalia 18.9 % 2025 −0.0 pp
  9. 9 Libya 18.8 % 2025 −0.3 pp
  10. 10 Lesotho 16.3 % 2025 −0.0 pp
  11. 11 Tunisia 15.1 % 2025 −0.2 pp
  12. 12 Angola 14.1 % 2025 +0.1 pp
  13. 13 South Sudan 12.4 % 2023* −0.1 pp
  14. 14 Cabo Verde 11.9 % 2025 +0.1 pp
  15. 15 Algeria 11.6 % 2025 −0.0 pp
  16. 16 Rwanda 11.4 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  17. 17 Mauritania 10.3 % 2025 +0.1 pp
  18. 18 Zimbabwe 9.3 % 2025 −0.1 pp
  19. 19 São Tomé and Príncipe 9.1 % 2025 +0.1 pp
  20. 20 Morocco 9.0 % 2025 −0.1 pp
  21. 21 Equatorial Guinea 8.3 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  22. 22 Sudan 7.5 % 2022* −3.6 pp
  23. 23 Egypt 6.8 % 2025 −0.0 pp
  24. 24 Mozambique 6.6 % 2025 −0.0 pp
  25. 25 The Gambia 6.5 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  26. 26 Central African Republic 6.3 % 2025 −0.0 pp
  27. 27 Eritrea 6.0 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  28. 28 Zambia 5.9 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  29. 29 Mauritius 5.6 % 2025 +0.1 pp
  30. 30 Kenya 5.4 % 2025 −0.0 pp
  31. 31 Guinea 5.2 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  32. 32 Malawi 5.1 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  33. 33 Democratic Republic of the Congo 4.4 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  34. 34 Comoros 3.8 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  35. 35 Cameroon 3.6 % 2025 −0.0 pp
  36. 36 Burkina Faso 3.5 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  37. 37 Ethiopia 3.3 % 2025 −0.0 pp
  38. 38 Sierra Leone 3.2 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  39. 39 Nigeria 3.1 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  40. 40 Madagascar 3.0 % 2025 −0.0 pp
  41. 41 Ghana 3.0 % 2025 +0.2 pp
  42. 42 Liberia 2.9 % 2025 −0.0 pp
  43. 43 Mali 2.8 % 2025 −0.1 pp
  44. 44 Uganda 2.7 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  45. 45 Senegal 2.7 % 2025 −0.1 pp
  46. 46 Guinea-Bissau 2.7 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  47. 47 Côte d’Ivoire 2.3 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  48. 48 Togo 2.0 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  49. 49 Benin 1.6 % 2025 −0.0 pp
  50. 50 Tanzania 1.6 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  51. 51 Chad 1.1 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  52. 52 Burundi 0.9 % 2025 +0.0 pp
  53. 53 Niger 0.4 % 2025 +0.0 pp

Each country is ranked on the latest value published by the source; the year is shown next to the value. * data older than the most recent year available.

No data available : Seychelles.