# Unemployment rate: North Macedonia

12.256% 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 | 12.256 |
| 2024 | 12.265 |
| 2023 | 13.174 |
| 2022 | 14.476 |
| 2021 | 15.801 |
| 2020 | 16.575 |
| 2019 | 17.414 |
| 2018 | 21.208 |
| 2017 | 22.857 |
| 2016 | 24.312 |
| 2015 | 26.395 |
| 2014 | 28.215 |
| 2013 | 29.017 |
| 2012 | 31.096 |
| 2011 | 31.502 |
| 2010 | 33.135 |
| 2009 | 32.351 |
| 2008 | 33.93 |
| 2007 | 35.231 |
| 2006 | 36.392 |
| 2005 | 37.32 |
| 2004 | 37.161 |
| 2003 | 36.69 |
| 2002 | 31.94 |
| 2001 | 30.52 |
| 2000 | 32.2 |
| 1999 | 32.4 |
| 1998 | 34.5 |
| 1997 | 36 |
| 1996 | 38.8 |
| 1995 | 35.6 |
| 1994 | 30 |
| 1993 | 27.7 |
| 1992 | 26.3 |
| 1991 | 24.5 |

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