# Unemployment rate: East Timor

1.592% 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 | 1.592 |
| 2024 | 1.523 |
| 2023 | 1.525 |
| 2022 | 1.537 |
| 2021 | 2.344 |
| 2020 | 2.808 |
| 2019 | 3.148 |
| 2018 | 3.765 |
| 2017 | 4.254 |
| 2016 | 4.657 |
| 2015 | 3.678 |
| 2014 | 3.618 |
| 2013 | 3.57 |
| 2012 | 3.47 |
| 2011 | 3.385 |
| 2010 | 3.301 |
| 2009 | 3.289 |
| 2008 | 3.434 |
| 2007 | 3.523 |
| 2006 | 3.634 |
| 2005 | 3.611 |
| 2004 | 3.668 |
| 2003 | 3.54 |
| 2002 | 3.371 |
| 2001 | 3.386 |
| 2000 | 3.529 |
| 1999 | 3.633 |
| 1998 | 3.5 |
| 1997 | 3.406 |
| 1996 | 3.372 |
| 1995 | 3.348 |
| 1994 | 3.309 |
| 1993 | 3.273 |
| 1992 | 3.36 |
| 1991 | 3.453 |

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