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Brunei: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1975–2025 · 26 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
5.07%percent
Change on 2024
+0.3 pointsfrom 4.80%
Average, 2016–2025
6.42%10 years
Record high and low
10.0% (1979)low 3.40% (1981)

Unemployment rate

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3%4%5%6%7%8%9%10%11%198019902000201020202030BruneiBrunei, 1991: 4.70%Brunei, 2001: 7.20%Brunei
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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20314.75Forecast
20304.75Forecast
20294.75Forecast
20284.75Forecast
20274.75Forecast
20264.75Forecast
20255.07
20244.80
20235.20
20225.20
20214.90
20207.30
20196.70
20187.70
20179.00
20168.34

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1975–2024
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2001–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2001–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2011–2024
  • International Labour Organization2014–2023
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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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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