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📉 Highest Female Unemployment

Unemployment among women in the labor force; ILO modeled estimate.

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
36.0% – 11.3%11.2% – 6.6%6.6% – 4.4%4.4% – 3.2%3.1% – 0.2%No data
1
🇸🇿Eswatini
36.0%
2
🇩🇯Djibouti
35.4%
3
🇿🇦South Africa
34.0%
4
🇾🇪Yemen
30.3%
5
🇮🇶Iraq
30.1%
6
🇬🇦Gabon
28.6%
7
🇧🇼Botswana
27.9%
8
🇸🇾Syria
26.1%
9
🇱🇾Libya
25.2%
10
🇦🇫Afghanistan
25.0%
11
🇸🇴Somalia
24.6%
12
🇯🇴Jordan
23.3%
13
🇨🇬Congo
21.1%
14
🇩🇿Algeria
20.6%
15
🇹🇳Tunisia
20.4%
16
🇱🇸Lesotho
18.4%
17
🇳🇦Namibia
18.4%
18
🇭🇹Haiti
18.0%
19
🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
16.0%
20
🇮🇷Iran
15.6%
21
🇪🇬Egypt
15.3%
22
🇲🇷Mauritania
14.7%
23
🇦🇴Angola
14.3%
24
🇲🇪Montenegro
14.2%
25
🇦🇲Armenia
13.8%
26
🇧🇿Belize
13.5%
27
🇬🇾Guyana
13.4%
28
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
13.3%
29
🇷🇼Rwanda
12.8%
30
🇵🇫French Polynesia
12.5%
31
🇻🇮United States Virgin Islands
12.2%
32
🇳🇨New Caledonia
12.1%
33
🇪🇸Spain
11.9%
34
🇳🇵Nepal
11.8%
35
🇹🇷Türkiye
11.6%
36
🇨🇻Cape Verde
11.4%
37
🇬🇷Greece
11.3%
38
🇦🇱Albania
11.2%
39
🇴🇲Oman
11.1%
40
🇲🇰North Macedonia
11.1%
41
🇸🇷Suriname
10.8%
42
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
10.7%
43
🇬🇪Georgia
10.7%
44
🇲🇦Morocco
10.6%
45
🇨🇴Colombia
10.5%
46
🇵🇦Panama
10.4%
47
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
9.7%
48
🇨🇱Chile
9.6%
49
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
9.4%
50
🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea
9.3%

Highlights

As of 2025, Eswatini ranks first with 36.0%, followed by Djibouti (35.4%) and South Africa (34.0%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 36.0% (Eswatini) to 0.2% (Cambodia), with a median of 5.6%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from Africa and 4 from Asia.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Unemployment, female (% of female labor force) (modeled ILO estimate), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Unemployment, female (% of female labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026