# Unemployment rate: Lower-middle-income countries

4.504344% 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 | 4.504344 |
| 2024 | 4.4715056 |
| 2023 | 4.4463806 |
| 2022 | 4.9982758 |
| 2021 | 6.256596 |
| 2020 | 7.0102844 |
| 2019 | 5.939734 |
| 2018 | 6.504683 |
| 2017 | 6.4711885 |
| 2016 | 6.390256 |
| 2015 | 6.5095963 |
| 2014 | 6.372322 |
| 2013 | 6.4570465 |
| 2012 | 6.48039 |
| 2011 | 6.277315 |
| 2010 | 6.1660814 |
| 2009 | 6.2419972 |
| 2008 | 6.184488 |
| 2007 | 6.160487 |
| 2006 | 6.2506413 |
| 2005 | 6.3981404 |
| 2004 | 6.4862947 |
| 2003 | 6.58966 |
| 2002 | 6.5794024 |
| 2001 | 6.503999 |
| 2000 | 6.5109124 |
| 1999 | 6.487855 |
| 1998 | 6.402448 |
| 1997 | 6.3689494 |
| 1996 | 6.3760076 |
| 1995 | 6.4322805 |
| 1994 | 6.4140034 |
| 1993 | 6.3948097 |
| 1992 | 6.2734256 |
| 1991 | 6.277638 |

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