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Laos: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1995–2022 · 9 observations · unemp

2022
1.21%percent
Record high and low
5.03% (2002)low 0.708% (2010)

Unemployment rate

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0%1%2%3%4%5%6%199520002005201020152020LaosLaos, 1995: 2.60%Laos
Percent

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20221.21
20173.27
20152.01
20100.708
20051.35
20031.68
20025.03
20014.97
19952.60

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1995–2022
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2001–2022
  • Asian Development Bank2001–2022
  • International Labour Organization2005–2022

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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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