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Bangladesh: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1984–2024 · 19 observations · unemp

2024
3.65%percent
Change on 2023
+0.3 pointsfrom 3.35%
Average, 2016–2024
4.03%5 years
Record high and low
5.00% (2009)low 0.925% (1989)

Unemployment rate

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Percent

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20243.65
20233.35
20224.59
20174.37
20164.20
20134.43
20112.50
20103.38
20095.00
20063.59

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1984–2024
  • International Labour Organization2000–2022
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2023
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2024

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Bangladesh 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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