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Zambia Unemployment Rate 2010s

Unemployment as % of total labor force · World Bank
7.17% decade average (2010-2019)

Zambia's unemployment rate during the 2010s ranged from 4.53% (2017) to 13.19% (2010), averaging 7.17% over 10 years of data.

2010s Data
YearValueChangeRank
2010 13.19% +2.61pp 157th
2011 10.55% −2.64pp 139th
2012 7.85% −2.70pp 112th
2013 7.27% −0.58pp 105th
2014 6.58% −0.70pp 96th
2015 5.95% −0.63pp 91st
2016 5.24% −0.71pp 84th
2017 4.53% −0.72pp 73rd
2018 5.03% +0.50pp 88th
2019 5.54% +0.51pp 102nd