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Algeria: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1975–2019 · 41 observations · unemp

2019
11.4%percent
Change on 2018
−0.3 pointsfrom 11.7%
Average, 2010–2019
10.8%10 years
Record high and low
38.4% (1975)low 9.83% (2013)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
201911.4
201811.7
201711.7
201610.5
201511.2
201410.6
20139.83
201211.0
20119.97
20109.96

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1975–2017
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2019
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor1990–2018
  • African Development Bank2000–2014
  • International Labour Organization2000–2016
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2019

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Algeria documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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