List of Countries by Unemployment Rate

ALL COUNTRIES Last Previous Highest Lowest Trend Unit Reference Frequency Afghanistan 15.00 9.00 15.00 3.37 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Albania 13.26 13.32 22.30 12.10 Percent Dec/2012 Quarterly Algeria 10.00 10.00 29.50 10.00 Percent Dec/2011 Quarterly Angola 26.00 25.00 35.00 25.00 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Argentina 6.90 7.60 20.80 6.70 Percent Dec/2012 Quarterly Armenia 5.90 6.00 12.10 5.90 Percent Dec/2011 Quarterly Australia 5.50 5.60 10.90 4.00 Percent Apr/2013 Monthly Austria 7.30 7.70 9.30 0.80 Percent Apr/2013 Monthly Azerbaijan 5.40 5.60 11.80 5.40 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Bahamas 14.00 13.70 14.20 6.90 Percent Dec/2012 Yearly Bahrain 3.80 4.00 4.10 3.30 Percent Dec/2012 Annual Bangladesh 4.50 5.10 5.10 4.30 Percent Dec/2010 Yearly Barbados 11.30 10.80 12.50 7.60 Percent Dec/2012 Quarterly Belarus 0.50 0.60 4.00 0.50 Percent Dec/2012 Yearly Belgium 8.20 8.20 11.00 6.30 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Benin 1.00 3.50 5.50 1.00 Percent Dec/2010 Yearly Bhutan 3.10 3.30 4.00 1.15 Percent Dec/2012 Yearly Bolivia 7.50 7.60 14.50 7.50 Percent Dec/2012 Yearly Bosnia and Herzegovina 46.10 45.99 46.10 39.03 Percent Feb/2013 Monthly Botswana 17.80 17.50 23.80 13.90 Percent Dec/2010 Yearly Brazil 5.70 5.60 13.10 4.60 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Brunei 2.60 2.67 7.20 2.60 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Bulgaria 13.80 12.40 15.60 5.00 Percent Mar/2013 Quarterly Burkina Faso 3.30 2.70 3.30 0.90 percent Dec/2007 Yearly Burundi 35.00 19.50 35.00 19.50 Percent Dec/2009 Yearly Cambodia 0.20 0.30 5.30 0.10 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Cameroon 3.80 5.60 5.60 3.80 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Canada 7.20 7.20 13.10 2.90 Percent Apr/2013 Monthly Cape Verde 16.80 12.20 20.20 10.70 Percent Dec/2012 Yearly Cayman Islands 6.30 6.20 7.50 2.60 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Central African Republic 16.10 8.00 16.10 6.00 percent Dec/2005 Yearly Chad 22.60 22.60 22.60 percent Dec/2006 Yearly Chile 6.20 6.20 13.50 5.10 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly China 4.10 4.10 4.30 3.90 Percent Dec/2012 Quarterly Colombia 10.21 11.79 17.87 8.85 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Comoros 13.50 20.00 20.00 13.50 Percent Dec/2004 Yearly Congo 50.30 51.40 66.90 45.40 Percent Dec/2012 Yearly Costa Rica 9.80 10.00 10.91 8.61 Percent Dec/2012 Quarterly Croatia 21.60 21.90 23.60 12.20 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Cuba 3.60 3.20 5.40 1.60 Percent Dec/2012 Yearly Cyprus 14.00 13.70 14.00 3.40 Percent Feb/2013 Monthly Czech Republic 7.70 8.00 9.94 0.09 Percent Apr/2013 Monthly Denmark 4.40 4.50 12.90 1.70 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Djibouti 59.50 43.50 59.50 43.50 Percent Dec/2002 Yearly Dominican Republic 15.10 14.30 19.70 13.90 Percent Sep/2012 Semesterly East Timor 3.60 3.60 3.60 Percent Dec/2010 Yearly Ecuador 4.61 5.00 12.05 4.61 Percent Mar/2013 Quarterly Egypt 13.20 13.00 13.20 8.10 Percent Feb/2013 Quarterly El Salvador 6.62 7.05 7.97 5.88 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Equatorial Guinea 22.30 19.70 22.30 1.30 Percent Dec/2009 Yearly Eritrea 14.50 14.50 14.50 Percent Dec/1984 Yearly Estonia 10.20 9.30 20.10 0.50 Percent Mar/2013 Quarterly Ethiopia 17.50 18.00 26.40 17.50 percent Dec/2012 Yearly Euro Area 12.10 12.00 12.10 7.20 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Fiji 7.00 7.00 12.00 3.70 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Finland 9.00 8.70 19.90 0.70 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly France 10.60 10.30 11.20 7.50 Percent Dec/2012 Quarterly Gabon 16.00 14.80 16.00 14.80 Percent Dec/2010 Yearly Gambia 6.00 6.00 6.00 6.00 Percent Dec/2003 Yearly Georgia 15.10 16.30 16.90 10.30 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Germany 5.40 5.40 14.20 0.40 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Ghana 12.90 11.20 12.90 11.20 Percent Dec/2005 Yearly Greece 27.00 26.70 27.00 7.30 Percent Feb/2013 Monthly Guatemala 2.90 4.06 4.06 2.47 Percent Dec/2012 Yearly Guinea 3.10 3.10 3.10 Percent Dec/1994 Yearly Guinea Bissau 7.60 3.20 10.14 3.20 percent Dec/2002 Yearly Guyana 21.00 21.00 28.50 11.70 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Haiti 40.60 9.61 40.60 7.20 Percent Dec/2010 Yearly Honduras 4.50 4.90 12.10 2.90 Percent Dec/2012 Yearly Hong Kong 3.50 3.40 8.60 1.00 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Hungary 11.80 11.60 11.80 5.50 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Iceland 4.90 5.30 9.30 0.10 Percent Apr/2013 Monthly India 3.80 9.40 9.40 3.80 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Indonesia 5.92 6.14 11.24 2.00 Percent Feb/2013 Quarterly Iran 8.00 7.10 15.40 7.10 Percent Sep/2012 Quarterly Iraq 16.00 23.00 28.00 15.00 Percent Dec/2012 Yearly Ireland 14.00 14.00 17.30 3.70 Percent Apr/2013 Monthly Israel 6.50 6.60 11.40 5.40 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Italy 11.50 11.50 11.70 5.90 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Ivory Coast 15.70 4.60 15.70 4.60 Percent Dec/2008 Yearly Jamaica 14.20 13.70 16.50 9.80 Percent Mar/2013 Quarterly Japan 4.10 4.30 5.60 1.00 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Jordan 12.80 12.50 14.30 10.80 Percent Mar/2013 Quarterly Kazakhstan 5.30 5.30 9.70 4.40 Percent Apr/2013 Monthly Kenya 40.00 12.70 40.00 12.70 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Kosovo 45.40 47.50 57.00 39.70 Percent Dec/2009 Yearly Kuwait 2.72 2.72 7.18 0.50 Percent Dec/2012 Yearly Kyrgyzstan 7.70 7.90 12.50 7.70 Percent Dec/2012 Yearly Laos 2.50 1.36 5.10 1.36 Percent Dec/2009 Yearly Latvia 12.80 13.80 20.70 5.40 Percent Mar/2013 Quarterly Lebanon 5.83 6.02 8.98 5.36 Percent Dec/2010 Yearly Lesotho 25.30 27.30 39.30 25.30 Percent Dec/2008 Yearly Liberia 3.70 5.60 15.90 3.70 Percent Dec/2010 Yearly Libya 19.50 20.70 20.70 13.00 percent Dec/2011 Yearly Lithuania 13.10 13.00 18.30 3.90 Percent Mar/2013 Quarterly Luxembourg 6.60 6.40 6.60 1.40 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Macao 1.90 1.90 7.10 1.90 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Macedonia 30.60 30.60 37.30 27.70 Percent Dec/2012 Quarterly Madagascar 3.80 3.70 6.80 3.70 Percent Dec/2010 Yearly Malawi 3.00 3.00 7.00 3.00 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Malaysia 3.00 3.30 4.50 2.70 Percent Feb/2013 Monthly Maldives 11.70 14.44 14.44 0.79 Percent Dec/2010 Yearly Mali 10.50 8.80 10.50 3.30 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Malta 6.50 6.60 8.24 5.88 Percent Dec/2012 Quarterly Mauritania 31.20 32.80 32.80 12.10 Percent Dec/2010 Yearly Mauritius 7.76 7.90 19.70 2.70 Percent Dec/2012 Quarterly Mexico 4.51 4.85 5.93 2.22 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Moldova 5.90 4.80 13.00 3.00 Percent Dec/2012 Quarterly Mongolia 3.60 3.30 9.00 2.80 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Montenegro 14.06 14.22 31.00 10.20 Percent Apr/2013 Monthly Morocco 9.40 8.70 15.10 7.80 Percent Mar/2013 Quarterly Mozambique 17.00 18.70 18.70 17.00 Percent Dec/2007 Yearly Myanmar 4.01 4.00 4.15 4.00 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Namibia 16.70 37.60 37.60 16.70 Percent Dec/2012 Yearly Nepal 3.00 8.80 8.80 1.80 Percent Dec/2008 Yearly Netherlands 8.20 8.10 8.20 3.40 Percent Apr/2013 Monthly New Caledonia 13.80 16.30 18.60 13.80 Percent Dec/2008 Yearly New Zealand 6.20 6.80 11.20 3.50 Percent Mar/2013 Quarterly Nicaragua 7.40 6.30 17.80 1.60 Percent Dec/2012 Yearly Niger 2.25 15.90 15.90 1.47 Percent Dec/2008 Yearly Nigeria 23.90 21.10 23.90 5.30 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Norway 3.50 3.60 4.70 2.30 Percent Feb/2013 Monthly Oman 15.00 15.00 15.00 15.00 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Pakistan 6.50 6.10 7.80 3.10 Percent Dec/2012 Quarterly Palestine 22.90 24.30 35.60 8.80 Percent Dec/2012 Quarterly Panama 4.00 4.50 16.30 4.00 Percent Dec/2012 Yearly Papua New Guinea 1.90 2.84 2.84 1.90 Percent Dec/2008 Yearly Paraguay 7.90 6.90 9.20 6.00 Percent Dec/2012 Quarterly Peru 5.60 6.40 13.00 5.60 Percent Apr/2013 Monthly Philippines 7.10 6.80 13.90 6.30 Percent Dec/2012 Quarterly Poland 14.00 14.30 20.70 0.30 Percent Apr/2013 Monthly Portugal 17.70 16.90 17.70 3.70 Percent Mar/2013 Quarterly Puerto Rico 13.70 14.20 24.00 9.70 Percent Apr/2013 Monthly Qatar 0.50 0.60 3.90 0.30 Percent Dec/2012 Yearly Republic of the Congo 26.60 26.60 26.60 percent Dec/2010 Yearly Romania 6.70 6.70 8.10 5.40 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Russia 5.70 5.80 14.10 4.90 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Rwanda 30.00 30.00 30.00 Percent Dec/2008 Yearly Sao Tome and Principe 14.00 16.70 16.70 14.00 Percent Dec/2008 Yearly Saudi Arabia 5.50 5.40 6.30 4.35 Percent Dec/2012 Yearly Senegal 10.20 12.00 12.00 5.60 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Serbia 22.40 25.50 25.50 13.30 Percent Sep/2012 Semesterly Seychelles 1.70 2.60 4.50 1.00 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Sierra Leone 3.40 3.40 3.40 Percent Dec/2004 Yearly Singapore 1.90 1.80 6.00 1.40 Percent Mar/2013 Quarterly Slovakia 14.70 14.71 19.70 8.70 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Slovenia 13.40 13.60 15.50 6.30 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly South Africa 25.20 24.90 31.20 21.90 Percent Mar/2013 Quarterly South Korea 3.10 3.20 7.10 3.00 Percent Apr/2013 Monthly South Sudan 12.00 12.00 12.00 percent Dec/2008 Yearly Spain 27.20 26.02 27.20 7.95 Percent Mar/2013 Quarterly Sri Lanka 3.90 4.10 11.30 3.90 Percent Dec/2012 Quarterly Sudan 15.90 16.80 16.80 11.10 percent Dec/2011 Yearly Suriname 9.00 9.00 14.00 7.00 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Swaziland 28.20 25.50 28.60 21.70 Percent Dec/2008 Yearly Sweden 8.80 8.50 10.50 1.30 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Switzerland 3.10 3.20 5.40 1.60 Percent Apr/2013 Monthly Syria 14.90 8.30 14.90 8.00 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Taiwan 4.18 4.16 6.13 0.86 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Tajikistan 2.50 2.40 3.13 2.00 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Tanzania 10.70 11.70 12.90 10.70 Percent Oct/2011 Yearly Thailand 0.62 0.83 5.73 0.39 Percent Feb/2013 Monthly Togo 6.80 6.80 6.80 Percent Dec/2006 Yearly Trinidad and Tobago 5.40 4.20 21.10 3.90 Percent Mar/2012 Quarterly Tunisia 16.70 17.00 18.30 12.40 Percent Dec/2012 Quarterly Turkey 9.20 9.40 14.90 9.00 Percent Feb/2013 Monthly Turkmenistan 2.60 2.60 2.62 1.87 Percent Dec/2004 Yearly Uganda 4.20 1.90 4.20 1.90 Percent Dec/2010 Yearly Ukraine 8.10 8.00 10.30 6.50 Percent Dec/2012 Quarterly United Arab Emirates 4.20 4.60 4.60 1.15 Percent Dec/2012 Yearly United Kingdom 7.80 7.90 12.00 3.40 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly United States 7.50 7.60 10.80 2.50 Percent Apr/2013 Monthly Uruguay 6.60 6.10 13.40 5.30 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Uzbekistan 4.80 4.80 4.80 Percent Sep/2012 Yearly Venezuela 7.70 7.60 20.70 5.90 Percent Mar/2013 Monthly Vietnam 1.81 2.06 4.50 1.81 Percent Dec/2012 Quarterly Yemen 29.00 14.60 29.00 13.70 Percent Dec/2011 Yearly Zambia 15.00 15.90 19.70 12.00 percent Dec/2008 Yearly Zimbabwe 10.70 4.20 10.80 4.20 percent Dec/2011 Yearly

NOTES: This page includes a list of countries which report Unemployment Rate. This table represents our best effort to provide some useful information on Unemployment Rate but is not suitable for ranking or comparison purposes. While analysing Unemployment Rate please take into account that countries have different currencies, publish their data in different dates, some do not seasonal adjust their time series, some follow different accounting methodologies and some are government official but not very accurate.