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Cameroon: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1996–2021 · 7 observations · unemp

2021
3.28%percent
Record high and low
21.4% (2005)low 3.06% (2007)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20213.28
20143.53
20104.11
20073.06
200521.4
20017.46
19968.06

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1996–2021
  • African Development Bank2001–2010
  • International Labour Organization2001–2021

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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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