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Egypt: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1970–2025 · 51 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
7.33%percent
Change on 2024
−0.0 pointsfrom 7.37%
Average, 2016–2025
8.93%10 years
Record high and low
13.4% (2014)low 0.729% (1975)

Unemployment rate

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0%2%4%6%8%10%12%14%1970198019902000201020202030EgyptEgypt
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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20319.45Forecast
20307.50Forecast
20296.42Forecast
20286.45Forecast
20277.10Forecast
20267.37Forecast
20257.33
20247.37
20237.19
20227.32
20217.29
20208.30
20198.61
201810.9
201712.2
201612.7

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1970–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2025
  • African Development Bank2000–2014
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor2003–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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