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Lesotho: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1986–2024 · 7 observations · unemp

2024
18.7%percent
Record high and low
37.9% (1997)low 16.9% (2019)

Unemployment rate

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15%20%25%30%35%40%1990199520002005201020152020LesothoLesotho, 1986: 22.9%Lesotho
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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
202418.7
201916.9
201324.6
200835.5
199927.3
199737.9
198622.9

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1986–2024
  • African Development Bank2008–2013
  • International Labour Organization2008–2019

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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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