Unemployment rate
% of labour force (ILO modelled)
- Published value. Native scale: 0 to 100 percent.
- Transform: value (no transform).
- Goalposts (fixed for all years; 2.5th and 97.5th percentiles of all observed country-years): worst = 24.4 scores 0, best = 0.851 scores 100.
- Direction: lower is better, so the position is flipped (1 − position).
- Clip and scale: anything below the worst goalpost scores 0 and anything above the best scores 100; multiply by 100.
Where the numbers come from
- ILO modelled estimates (ILOEST), ILOSTAT produces the series — Labour force survey results reported by national statistical offices, harmonised and gap-filled by the ILO's estimation model.
Source statement as published by the data provider (verbatim)
ILO Modelled Estimates database (ILOEST), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: January 17, 2026
Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment.
Every country row below has a “verify” link to this series filtered to that country, so each value can be checked against the source.
History
Countries ranked on this indicator
186 countries have a usable value for 2024 (4 carried forward from an earlier year); 31 have none within 2 years.
No official value for 2024: 31 countries
Aruba, Andorra, American Samoa, Antigua and Barbuda, Bermuda, Curacao, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Faroe Islands, Micronesia, Fed. Sts., Gibraltar, Grenada, Greenland, Isle of Man, Kiribati, St. Kitts and Nevis, Liechtenstein, St. Martin (French part), Monaco, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Naoero, Palau, San Marino, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Seychelles, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Ukraine, British Virgin Islands, Kosovo