The CIA World Factbook Edition 2014 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 2014 edition carries it in 230 entries, in its Economy section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 2014 edition
- 230
- 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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Entries with Unemployment rate in each edition
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World
1 entryWorld
8.4% (2013 est.)
note: 30% combined unemployment and underemployment in many non-industrialized countries; developed countries typically 4%-12% unemployment (2007 est.)
Africa
54 entriesArctic Region
2 entriesAsia
22 entriesBangladesh
5% (2013 est.)
note: about 40% of the population is underemployed; many persons counted as employed work only a few hours a week and at low wages
China
4.1% (2013 est.)
note: data are for registered urban unemployment, which excludes private enterprises and migrants
Central America and the Caribbean
30 entriesEurope
48 entriesAlbania
16.9% (2013 est.)
note: these are official rates that may not include those working at near-subsistence farming
Bosnia and Herzegovina
44.3% (2013 est.)
note: official rate; actual rate is lower as many technically unemployed persons work in the gray economy
Kosovo
30.9% (2013 est.)
45% (1)
note: Kosovo has a large informal sector that may not be reflected in these data
Ukraine
8% (2013 est.)
note: officially registered; large number of unregistered or underemployed workers
Middle East
17 entriesSaudi Arabia
10.5% (2013 est.)
note: data are for Saudi males only (local bank estimates; other estimates are as high as 25%)
North America
5 entriesOceania
23 entriesSouth America
13 entriesSoutheast Asia
15 entriesCite this page
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2014, “Unemployment rate”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/unemployment-rate/2014.