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Liberia: Unemployment rate

Percent · 2007–2017 · 7 observations · unemp

2017
5.93%percent
Change on 2016
+2.9 pointsfrom 3.08%
Average, 2010–2017
5.83%6 years
Record high and low
19.5% (2012)low 2.08% (2014)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20175.93
20163.08
20152.08
20142.08
201219.5
20102.27
20075.55

Sources

  • African Development Bank2007–2010
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2007–2017
  • International Labour Organization2010–2017

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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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