The CIA World Factbook Edition 2004 Economy

Unemployment rate In 36 editions of 36.

Unemployment rate was published in 36 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2025. The 2004 edition carries it in 236 entries, in its Economy section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 2004 edition: 236
the first edition with it: 1990
the latest edition with it: 2025

Published as “Unemployment rate” (1990 to 2025), and under 1 other heading in a few entries, mostly where the source split this field into parts.

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2004

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World

1 entry

World

30% combined unemployment and underemployment in many non-industrialized countries; developed countries typically 4%-12% unemployment

Africa

57 entries

Algeria

26.2% (2003 est.)

Angola

extensive unemployment and underemployment affecting more than half the population (2001 est.)

Benin

Botswana

40% (official rate is 21%) (2001 est.)

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cape Verde now Cabo Verde

21% (2000 est.)

Cameroon

30% (2001 est.)

Central African Republic

8% (23% for Bangui) (2001 est.)

Chad

NA (2000)

Comoros

20% (1996 est.)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo

NA (2003 est.)

Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo

NA (2003)

Cote d'Ivoire

13% in urban areas (1998)

Djibouti

50% (2000 est.)

Egypt

9.9% (2003 est.)

Equatorial Guinea

30% (1998 est.)

Eritrea

NA (2003 est.)

Swaziland now Eswatini

34% (2000 est.)

Ethiopia

NA (2002)

Gabon

21% (1997 est.)

Gambia, The now The Gambia

NA (2002 est.)

Ghana

20% (1997 est.)

Guinea

NA (2002 est.)

Guinea-Bissau

NA (1998)

Kenya

40% (2001 est.)

Lesotho

45% (2002)

Liberia

85% (2003 est.)

Libya

30% (2001)

Madagascar

5.9% (1998)

Malawi

NA (2003 est.)

Mali

14.6% urban areas; 5.3% rural areas (2001 est.)

Mauritania

21% (1999 est.)

Mauritius

9.8% (2003 est.)

Mayotte

38% (1999)

Morocco

19% (2003 est.)

Mozambique

21% (1997 est.)

Namibia

35% (1998)

Niger

NA (2002 est.)

Nigeria

NA (2003 est.)

Reunion

36% (1999 est.)

Rwanda

Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha

14% (1998 est.)

Sao Tome and Principe

Senegal

48% (urban youth 40%) (2001 est.)

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Somalia

South Africa

31% (includes workers no longer looking for employment) (2003 est.)

Sudan

18.7% (2002 est.)

Tanzania

Togo

NA (2003 est.)

Tunisia

14.3% (2003 est.)

Uganda

NA (2002 est.)

Western Sahara

Zambia

50% (2000 est.)

Zimbabwe

70% (2002 est.)

Arctic Region

2 entries

Greenland

10% (2000 est.)

Iceland

3.4% (2003 est.)

Asia

22 entries

Afghanistan

NA (2003)

Armenia

20% (2001 est.)

Azerbaijan

1.1% (official rate is 1.2%) (2003 est.)

Bangladesh

40% (includes underemployment) (2002 est.)

Bhutan

China

10.1% urban unemployment roughly 10%; substantial unemployment and underemployment in rural areas (2003 est.)

Georgia

17% (2001 est.)

India

9.5% (2003)

Japan

5.3% (2003)

Kazakhstan

8.8% (2003 est.)

Korea, North now North Korea

NA (2003)

Korea, South now South Korea

3.4% (2003 est.)

Kyrgyzstan

7.2% (1999 est.)

Maldives

NEGL% (2003 est.)

Mongolia

4.6% (2001)

Nepal

47% (2001 est.)

Pakistan

7.7% plus substantial underemployment (2003 est.)

Russia

8.5% plus considerable underemployment (2003 est.)

Sri Lanka

8.4% (2003)

Tajikistan

40% (2002 est.)

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

0.5% plus another 20% underemployed (2003)

Central America and the Caribbean

31 entries

Anguilla

6.7% (2001)

Antigua and Barbuda

11% (2001 est.)

Aruba

0.6% (2003 est.)

Bahamas, The now The Bahamas

6.9% (2001 est.)

Barbados

10.7% (2003 est.)

Belize

9.1% (2002)

British Virgin Islands

3% (1995)

Cayman Islands

4.1% (1997)

Costa Rica

6.7% (2003 est.)

Cuba

2.6% (2003 est.)

Dominica

23% (2000 est.)

Dominican Republic

16.5% (2003 est.)

El Salvador

6.5% - but the economy has much underemployment (2003 est.)

Grenada

12.5% (2000)

Guadeloupe

27.8% (1998)

Guatemala

7.5% (2003 est.)

Haiti

widespread unemployment and underemployment; more than two-thirds of the labor force do not have formal jobs (2002 est.)

Honduras

27.5% (2003 est.)

Jamaica

15.9% (2003 est.)

Martinique

27.2% (1998)

Montserrat

6% (1998 est.)

Netherlands Antilles

15.6% (2002 est.)

Nicaragua

22% plus considerable underemployment (2003 est.)

Panama

13.8% (2003 est.)

Puerto Rico

12% (2002)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

4.5% (1997)

Saint Lucia

16.5% (1997 est.)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

22% (1997 est.)

Trinidad and Tobago

10.4% (2003)

Turks and Caicos Islands

10% (1997 est.)

Virgin Islands

9.3% (2003 est.)

Europe

46 entries

Albania

15.8% officially; may be as high as 30% (2003 est.)

Czech Republic now Czechia

9.9% (2003)

Man, Isle of now Isle of Man

0.7% (March 2003)

8% (roughly 25% of working age Moldovans are employed abroad) (2002 est.)

Monaco

3.1% (1998)

Netherlands

5.3% (2003 est.)

Macedonia now North Macedonia

36.7% (2003 est.)

Middle East

17 entries

Bahrain

15% (1998 est.)

Cyprus

Republic of Cyprus:: 3.4%; north Cyprus: 5.6% (2003 est.)

Gaza Strip

50% (includes West Bank) (2003 est.)

Iran

15.7% (2002 est.)

Iraq

NA (2003 est.)

Israel

10.7% (2003 est.)

Jordan

16% official rate; actual rate is 25%-30% (2001 est.)

Turkey now Turkiye

10.5% (plus underemployment of 6.1%) (2003 est.)

United Arab Emirates

2.4% (2001)

West Bank

50% (includes Gaza Strip) (2002 est.)

Yemen

35% (2003 est.)

North America

5 entries

3.3% plus underemployment of perhaps 25% (2003)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

9.8% (1997)

United States

6% (2003)

Oceania

25 entries

2%; underemployment 70% (1992 est.)

Marshall Islands

30.9% (1999 est.)

Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia

16% (1999 est.)

NA (March 1999)

South America

14 entries

9.8%; note - underemployment of 47% (2003 est.)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

full employment; labor shortage (2001)

French Guiana

22% (2001)

Guyana

9.1% (understated) (2000)

Paraguay

18.5% (2003 est.)

Peru

9.7%; widespread underemployment (2003 est.)

Southeast Asia

16 entries

Brunei

10% (2001 est.)

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

4.2% (2003)

East Timor now Timor-Leste

50% (including underemployment) (1992 est.)

Vietnam

6.1% (2003 est.)

Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2004, “Unemployment rate”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/unemployment-rate/2004.

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