# Unemployment rate: Uganda

2.746% 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 | 2.746 |
| 2024 | 2.74 |
| 2023 | 2.754 |
| 2022 | 2.885 |
| 2021 | 3.416 |
| 2020 | 3.819 |
| 2019 | 3.057 |
| 2018 | 3.249 |
| 2017 | 3.428 |
| 2016 | 3.002 |
| 2015 | 2.681 |
| 2014 | 2.357 |
| 2013 | 1.91 |
| 2012 | 3.551 |
| 2011 | 3.523 |
| 2010 | 3.623 |
| 2009 | 3.6 |
| 2008 | 3.035 |
| 2007 | 2.667 |
| 2006 | 2.264 |
| 2005 | 1.9 |
| 2004 | 2.699 |
| 2003 | 3.6 |
| 2002 | 3.5 |
| 2001 | 3.522 |
| 2000 | 3.531 |
| 1999 | 3.46 |
| 1998 | 3.424 |
| 1997 | 3.209 |
| 1996 | 3.169 |
| 1995 | 3.193 |
| 1994 | 3.458 |
| 1993 | 3.487 |
| 1992 | 3.553 |
| 1991 | 3.448 |

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