Unemployment rate: World, earlier edition

This site's figures come from the World Bank's World Development Indicators as Our World in Data published them in its edition of 27 July 2026. Our World in Data's catalogue also keeps its edition of 29 January 2026, in which this series is "Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate)". Both are below, year by year.

34 of the 34 years in both editions differ. 1 year appears only in the later edition.

The earlier edition is stored as single-precision numbers, which keep about seven significant digits, so its values are given to six. A year counts as differing only when the two editions disagree beyond that precision; where they agree, the value is given as this site gives it.

YearThis site (%)Edition of 29 January 2026Differs
20254.791333none
20244.80627974.80587yes
20234.8499174.84957yes
20225.2346285.23426yes
20216.0455616.04519yes
20206.58768946.58731yes
20195.58847955.58822yes
20185.75954155.75952yes
20175.8980245.89789yes
20165.97088345.97069yes
20155.99850855.99825yes
20145.9574715.95721yes
20136.09934476.09906yes
20126.15209876.15181yes
20116.1490656.14878yes
20106.2811886.28093yes
20096.40956456.40934yes
20085.824195.82404yes
20075.7749125.77481yes
20065.97382355.97374yes
20056.2239926.2239yes
20046.32979736.32969yes
20036.4840276.48391yes
20026.4119236.41181yes
20016.18991576.18981yes
20006.111376.11127yes
19996.2784766.27835yes
19986.1591846.15907yes
19976.0102356.01014yes
19965.9837965.9837yes
19955.9195235.91943yes
19945.7892835.78918yes
19935.543665.5436yes
19925.2755355.27549yes
19915.1194415.1194yes

Earlier edition: Our World in Data's catalogue table and its metadata. This figure on this site · Versions.