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Kuwait: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1983–2016 · 23 observations · unemp

2016
2.16%percent
Change on 2015
+0.2 pointsfrom 1.95%
Average, 2007–2016
2.16%8 years
Record high and low
5.75% (2003)low 0.70% (1994)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20162.16
20151.95
20142.90
20113.60
20101.82
20091.64
20081.75
20071.50
20061.30
20051.95

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1983–2016
  • International Labour Organization2000–2016

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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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