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Bahrain: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1979–2024 · 29 observations · unemp

2024
6.20%percent
Change on 2023
−0.1 pointsfrom 6.30%
Average, 2015–2024
5.02%10 years
Record high and low
43.2% (1998)low 0% (1985)

Unemployment rate

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Percent

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20246.20
20236.30
20225.40
20215.90
20205.90
20194.70
20184.30
20174.10
20163.90
20153.50

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1979–2015
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2007–2024
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor2007–2024
  • International Labour Organization2010–2012
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024

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Bahrain 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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