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Iraq Unemployment Rate 2010s

Unemployment as % of total labor force · World Bank
10.65% decade average (2010-2019)

Iraq's unemployment rate during the 2010s ranged from 7.97% (2012) to 14.10% (2019), averaging 10.65% over 10 years of data.

2010s Data
YearValueChangeRank
2010 8.27% −0.15pp 118th
2011 8.19% −0.07pp 121st
2012 7.97% −0.23pp 115th
2013 9.22% +1.26pp 126th
2014 10.59% +1.37pp 138th
2015 10.87% +0.28pp 145th
2016 10.82% −0.04pp 145th
2017 13.02% +2.20pp 162nd
2018 13.46% +0.44pp 165th
2019 14.10% +0.64pp 168th