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👷 Unemployment, male

Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment.

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
32.5% – 9.0%9.0% – 5.7%5.7% – 4.1%4.1% – 2.7%2.7% – 0.1%No data
1
🇸🇿Eswatini
32.5%
2
🇿🇦South Africa
31.0%
3
🇩🇯Djibouti
21.8%
4
🇧🇼Botswana
21.5%
5
🇳🇦Namibia
20.1%
6
🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
19.5%
7
🇨🇬Congo
18.7%
8
🇸🇴Somalia
16.4%
9
🇾🇪Yemen
16.3%
10
🇱🇾Libya
15.5%
11
🇯🇴Jordan
14.9%
12
🇱🇸Lesotho
14.7%
13
🇬🇦Gabon
14.5%
14
🇦🇴Angola
14.0%
15
🇬🇪Georgia
13.4%
16
🇮🇶Iraq
13.3%
17
🇲🇰North Macedonia
13.1%
18
🇲🇪Montenegro
13.0%
19
🇹🇳Tunisia
12.8%
20
🇦🇫Afghanistan
12.5%
21
🇨🇻Cape Verde
12.4%
22
🇭🇹Haiti
12.3%
23
🇦🇲Armenia
12.1%
24
🇵🇫French Polynesia
11.0%
25
🇸🇾Syria
10.9%
26
🇬🇾Guyana
10.8%
27
🇦🇱Albania
10.7%
28
🇻🇮United States Virgin Islands
10.6%
29
🇳🇨New Caledonia
10.4%
30
🇷🇼Rwanda
10.1%
31
🇫🇮Finland
10.0%
32
🇩🇿Algeria
9.8%
33
🇳🇵Nepal
9.7%
34
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
9.4%
35
🇧🇸Bahamas
9.3%
36
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
9.2%
37
🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
9.0%
38
🇪🇸Spain
9.0%
39
🇸🇪Sweden
8.8%
40
🇪🇪Estonia
8.6%
41
🇲🇦Morocco
8.5%
42
🇨🇱Chile
8.5%
43
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
8.4%
44
🇹🇯Tajikistan
8.2%
45
🇲🇷Mauritania
8.1%
46
🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea
7.7%
47
🇱🇻Latvia
7.6%
48
🇫🇷France
7.5%
49
🇨🇦Canada
7.2%
50
🇱🇹Lithuania
7.1%

Highlights

As of 2025, Eswatini ranks first with 32.5%, followed by South Africa (31.0%) and Djibouti (21.8%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 32.5% (Eswatini) to 0.1% (Qatar), with a median of 4.9%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 8 from Africa, 1 from the Americas and 1 from Asia.

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

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