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Botswana: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1985–2024 · 19 observations · unemp

2024
24.4%percent
Change on 2023
+1.1 pointsfrom 23.4%
Average, 2019–2024
22.6%6 years
Record high and low
25.7% (1985)low 13.8% (1991)

Unemployment rate

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12%14%16%18%20%22%24%26%19851990199520002005201020152020BotswanaBotswana, 1985: 25.7%Botswana
Percent

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
202424.4
202323.4
202223.6
202123.1
202021.0
201920.1
201320.0
201120.0
201017.9
200916.2

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1985–2024
  • African Development Bank2000–2010
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023

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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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