Countries Ranked by Unemployment Rates

This list ranks countries based on their unemployment rate. The unemployment rate can be defined as the percentage of employable people actively seeking work, out of the number of the working population. Nauru has the highest unemployment rate, due to the fact that their economy is based on the exports of phosphates, which are now depleted.

Rank	Country	Unemployment Rate	Year
1	Nauru	90%	2004
2	Liberia	85%	2003
3	Zimbabwe	80%	2005
4	Burkina Faso	77%	2004
5	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	60%	2000
6	Turkmenistan	60%	2004
7	Djibouti	59%	2007
8	Timor-Leste	50%	2001
9	Zambia	50%	2000
10	Senegal	48%	2007
11	Bosnia and Herzegovina	45.50%	2004
12	Lesotho	45%	2002
13	Kosovo	43%	2007
14	Nepal	42%	2004
15	Afghanistan	40%	2005
16	Kenya	40%	2001
17	Swaziland	40%	2006
18	Yemen	35%	2003
19	Macedonia	34.90%	2007
20	Gaza Strip	34.80%	2006
21	Marshall Islands	30.90%	2000
22	Cameroon	30%	2001
23	Equatorial Guinea	30%	1998
24	Libya	30%	2004
25	Mali	30%	2004
26	American Samoa	29.80%	2005
27	Honduras	27.80%	2007
28	Mayotte	25.40%	2005
29	South Africa	24.30%	2007
30	Dominica	23%	2000
31	Federated States of Micronesia	22%	2000
32	Cape Verde	21%	2000
33	Gabon	21%	2006
34	Mozambique	21%	1997
35	Comoros	20%	1996
36	Lebanon	20%	2006
37	Mauritania	20%	2004
38	Saint Lucia	20%	2003
39	Serbia	18.80%	2007
40	Sudan	18.70%	2002
41	West Bank	18.60%	2006
42	Iraq	18%	2006
43	Kyrgyzstan	18%	2004
44	New Caledonia	17.10%	2004
45	Netherlands Antilles	17%	2002
46	Dominican Republic	15.60%	2007
47	Wallis and Futuna	15.20%	2003
48	Bahrain	15%	2005
49	Oman	15%	2004
50	Saint Vincent & the Grenadines	15%	2001
51	Montenegro	14.70%	2007
52	Tunisia	14.10%	2007
53	Saint Helena	14%	1998
54	Georgia	13.60%	2006
55	Jordan	13.50%	2007
56	Albania	13.20%	2007
57	Cook Islands	13.10%	2005
58	Saudi Arabia	13%	2004
59	Tonga	13%	2003
60	Poland	12.80%	2007
61	Grenada	12.50%	2000
62	Iran	12%	2007
63	Niue	12%	2001
64	Puerto Rico	12%	2002
65	Algeria	11.80%	2007
66	Croatia	11.80%	2007
67	French Polynesia	11.70%	2005
68	Guam	11.40%	2002
69	Colombia	11.20%	2007
70	Antigua and Barbuda	11%	2001
71	Ghana	11%	2000
72	Barbados	10.70%	2003
73	Saint-Pierre and Miquelon	10.30%	1999
74	Turks and Caicos Islands	10%	1997
75	Jamaica	9.90%	2007
76	Turkey	9.90%	2007
77	Morocco	9.80%	2007
78	Suriname	9.50%	2004
79	Belize	9.40%	2006
80	Brazil	9.30%	2007
81	Greenland	9.30%	2005
82	Uruguay	9.20%	2007
83	Egypt	9.10%	2007
84	Indonesia	9.10%	2007
85	Germany	9%	2007
86	Syria	9%	2007
87	Ecuador	8.80%	2007
88	Mauritius	8.80%	2007
89	Argentina	8.50%	2007
90	Venezuela	8.50%	2007
91	Slovakia	8.40%	2007
92	Greece	8.30%	2007
93	Spain	8.30%	2007
94	Anguilla	8%	2002
95	Central African Republic	8%	2001
96	Portugal	8%	2007
97	France	7.90%	2007
98	Bulgaria	7.70%	2007
99	Slovenia	7.70%	2007
100	Fiji	7.60%	1999

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