Comparable country indicators
Country ranking by unemployment rate for 2018
Country ranking by “Unemployment rate” for 2018. The table covers 53 countries with a published value; another 2 in the world catalogue have no value for this year. For Russia the ranking uses the unemployment rate from Rosstat’s labour force survey. Foreign values follow Eurostat’s harmonised methodology. Both measures are close in meaning (share of unemployed in the labour force), but age coverage and survey details may differ.
Full country ranking
| Rank | Country | Value, % of the labour force | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Czechia | 2.3 | December 2018 |
| 2 | Japan | 2.4333 | 2018 |
| 3 | Moldova | 3.05 | 2018 |
| 4 | Germany | 3.1 | December 2018 |
| 5 | Iceland | 3.2 | December 2018 |
| 6 | Mexico | 3.325 | 2018 |
| 7 | Hungary | 3.4 | December 2018 |
| 8 | Norway | 3.7 | December 2018 |
| 9 | South Korea | 3.8333 | 2018 |
| 10 | Poland | 3.9 | December 2018 |
| 11 | United Kingdom | 3.9 | December 2018 |
| 12 | United States | 3.9 | December 2018 |
| 13 | Israel | 3.9833 | 2018 |
| 14 | Malta | 4 | December 2018 |
| 15 | Estonia | 4.3 | December 2018 |
| 16 | New Zealand | 4.325 | 2018 |
| 17 | Slovenia | 4.5 | December 2018 |
| 18 | Netherlands | 4.6 | December 2018 |
| 19 | Switzerland | 4.8 | December 2018 |
| 20 | Russia | 4.8 | December 2018 |
| 21 | China | 4.9 | December 2018 |
| 22 | Azerbaijan | 4.9444 | 2018 |
| 23 | Romania | 5 | December 2018 |
| 24 | Australia | 5.0181 | December 2018 |
| 25 | Austria | 5.2 | December 2018 |
| 26 | Luxembourg | 5.3 | December 2018 |
| 27 | Ireland | 5.5 | December 2018 |
| 28 | Bulgaria | 5.6 | December 2018 |
| 29 | Canada | 5.6 | December 2018 |
| 30 | Belgium | 5.7 | December 2018 |
| 31 | Denmark | 5.7 | December 2018 |
| 32 | Slovakia | 5.8 | December 2018 |
| 33 | Lithuania | 5.9 | December 2018 |
| 34 | Finland | 6 | December 2018 |
| 35 | Portugal | 6.8 | December 2018 |
| 36 | Sweden | 6.8 | December 2018 |
| 37 | Latvia | 6.9 | December 2018 |
| 38 | India | 7.2 | 2018 |
| 39 | Croatia | 7.3 | December 2018 |
| 40 | Cyprus | 7.8 | December 2018 |
| 41 | Ukraine | 8.7996 | 2018 |
| 42 | France | 8.8 | December 2018 |
| 43 | Italy | 10.3 | December 2018 |
| 44 | Brazil | 11.7 | December 2018 |
| 45 | Albania | 12.3 | 2018 |
| 46 | Türkiye | 12.7 | December 2018 |
| 47 | Serbia | 13.6786 | 2018 |
| 48 | Spain | 14.4 | December 2018 |
| 49 | North Macedonia | 18.4 | December 2018 |
| 50 | Greece | 19 | December 2018 |
| 51 | Armenia | 19 | 2018 |
| 52 | Georgia | 19.3 | 2018 |
| 53 | South Africa | 27.125 | 2018 |
Countries without data for 2018
These countries have no published value for the selected indicator in 2018.
Other ranking indicators
- Harmonised index of consumer prices
- Unemployment rate
- General government budget balance
- General government gross debt
- Population
- Long-term government bond yield
- Economic activity rate
- GDP per capita relative to the EU average
- Gross domestic product at current prices
- Gross domestic product per capita at current prices
Other years
Data source
Eurostat, International Monetary Fund, Office for National Statistics, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Rosstat, National Bureau of Statistics of China, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Canada, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and Central Bank of Brazil. Units: % of the labour force. For each calendar year the last published value within the year is used.
Data as of December 2018