Comparable country indicators

Country ranking by unemployment rate for 2020

Country ranking by “Unemployment rate” for 2020. 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.

Unemployment rate by country — ranking 2020, first value in current order: Japan (2.8 % of the labour force)
Unemployment rate by country, 2020. Source: International Monetary Fund, Eurostat, Office for National Statistics, National Bureau of Statistics of China, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Rosstat, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Statistics Canada and Central Bank of Brazil. forecasteconomy.com
First value in current order — Japan2.8 % of the labour force
Last value in current order — South Africa29.175 % of the labour force
Countries with data53 of 55
Latest date in the slice1 December 2020

Full country ranking

RankCountryValue, % of the labour forcePeriod
1Japan2.82020
2Czechia3December 2020
3Poland3.3December 2020
4Germany3.8December 2020
5Moldova3.82472020
6South Korea3.9552020
7Israel4.29172020
8Hungary4.3December 2020
9Mexico4.40922020
10New Zealand4.62020
11Malta4.8December 2020
12Norway4.8December 2020
13Netherlands4.9December 2020
14Switzerland5.2December 2020
15United Kingdom5.2December 2020
16China5.2December 2020
17India5.22020
18Slovenia5.4December 2020
19Denmark5.9December 2020
20Russia5.9December 2020
21Belgium6December 2020
22Bulgaria6.2December 2020
23Ireland6.2December 2020
24Romania6.2December 2020
25Luxembourg6.4December 2020
26Australia6.5599December 2020
27Austria6.7December 2020
28Iceland6.7December 2020
29United States6.7December 2020
30Portugal7December 2020
31Slovakia7December 2020
32Estonia7.1December 2020
33Azerbaijan7.24382020
34Cyprus7.7December 2020
35Latvia7.8December 2020
36France7.9December 2020
37Finland8.2December 2020
38Croatia8.4December 2020
39Lithuania8.4December 2020
40Canada8.9December 2020
41Sweden9.2December 2020
42Ukraine9.51822020
43Serbia9.71252020
44Italy9.8December 2020
45Albania11.6752020
46Türkiye12.6December 2020
47Brazil14.2December 2020
48Spain16.2December 2020
49Greece16.7December 2020
50North Macedonia16.7December 2020
51Armenia18.22020
52Georgia18.52020
53South Africa29.1752020

Countries without data for 2020

These countries have no published value for the selected indicator in 2020.

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Data source

International Monetary Fund, Eurostat, Office for National Statistics, National Bureau of Statistics of China, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Rosstat, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Statistics Canada 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 2020

Eurostat

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