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Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (national estimate)

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Timeline:

This timeline shows a graph from 1995 to 2015 of World. No data until 1994. Number of actual observations by date: 17.

Source name:

World Development Indicators

Source organization:

International Labour Organization, Key Indicators of the Labour Market database.

Categories, topics:

Social Protection & Labor

Last updated:

apr 23, 2017

Indicators value changes by year

Meaning:

5.939

Minimum:

5.067

jan 1, 1997

Maximum:

7.108

jan 1, 2010

At the date of observation

Value

Absolute change

Change from the previous value

jan 1, 1995

5.287

+5.287

0.0%

jan 1, 1996

5.272

-0.015

-0.29%

jan 1, 1997

5.067

-0.205

-3.88%

jan 1, 1998

5.385

+0.318

6.28%

jan 1, 1999

5.616

+0.231

4.29%

jan 1, 2001

5.587

-0.029

-0.51%

jan 1, 2005

7.004

+1.417

25.36%

jan 1, 2006

6.081

-0.924

-13.19%

jan 1, 2007

6.445

+0.364

5.99%

jan 1, 2008

5.898

-0.546

-8.48%

jan 1, 2009

6.017

+0.119

2.01%

jan 1, 2010

7.108

+1.091

18.13%

jan 1, 2011

6.035

-1.072

-15.09%

jan 1, 2012

6.773

+0.737

12.21%

jan 1, 2013

5.961

-0.812

-11.98%

jan 1, 2014

5.802

-0.159

-2.66%

jan 1, 2015

5.626

-0.176

-3.04%

Ranking of countries by current statistics by years

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