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Hong Kong: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1975–2025 · 51 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
3.56%percent
Change on 2024
+0.5 pointsfrom 3.01%
Average, 2016–2025
3.71%10 years
Record high and low
9.17% (1975)low 1.08% (1989)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20312.67Forecast
20302.68Forecast
20292.77Forecast
20283.02Forecast
20273.16Forecast
20263.26Forecast
20253.56
20243.01
20232.97
20224.35
20215.41
20205.53
20192.91
20182.81
20173.15
20163.38

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1975–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor1990–2025
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Hong Kong documentation (PDF)

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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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