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Ghana: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1989–2024 · 15 observations · unemp

2024
3.99%percent
Change on 2023
+0.8 pointsfrom 3.20%
Average, 2015–2024
3.90%6 years
Record high and low
10.5% (2000)low 0.80% (1989)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20243.99
20233.20
20222.86
20213.19
20173.37
20156.81
20132.17
20105.38
20064.90
200010.5

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1989–2024
  • African Development Bank2000–2013
  • International Labour Organization2000–2022

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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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