# Unemployment rate: Congo

19.876% in 2025, the latest year published. Figures for 35 years from 1991 to 2025 are below.

Share of the labor force without work, but actively looking for a job and available to start soon.

Source: ILO Modelled Estimates, via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data. [Source and method](/sources/unemployment) · [All countries and regions](/unemployment).

## Every year

| Year | Value (%) |
| ---: | ---: |
| 2025 | 19.876 |
| 2024 | 19.895 |
| 2023 | 19.919 |
| 2022 | 20.131 |
| 2021 | 21.998 |
| 2020 | 22.286 |
| 2019 | 20.494 |
| 2018 | 20.84 |
| 2017 | 20.737 |
| 2016 | 20.298 |
| 2015 | 20.02 |
| 2014 | 19.696 |
| 2013 | 19.845 |
| 2012 | 19.491 |
| 2011 | 19.435 |
| 2010 | 19.3 |
| 2009 | 19.844 |
| 2008 | 19.962 |
| 2007 | 19.909 |
| 2006 | 19.563 |
| 2005 | 19.796 |
| 2004 | 19.896 |
| 2003 | 19.877 |
| 2002 | 19.644 |
| 2001 | 19.88 |
| 2000 | 19.872 |
| 1999 | 20.141 |
| 1998 | 19.898 |
| 1997 | 19.886 |
| 1996 | 20.049 |
| 1995 | 20.226 |
| 1994 | 20.269 |
| 1993 | 19.99 |
| 1992 | 19.916 |
| 1991 | 19.911 |

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