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Malaysia: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1970–2025 · 46 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
3.00%percent
Change on 2024
−0.2 pointsfrom 3.22%
Average, 2016–2025
3.61%10 years
Record high and low
8.26% (1986)low 1.66% (1980)

Unemployment rate

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1%2%3%4%5%6%7%8%9%1970198019902000201020202030MalaysiaMalaysia, 1970: 5.14%Malaysia
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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20313.00Forecast
20303.00Forecast
20293.00Forecast
20283.00Forecast
20273.00Forecast
20263.00Forecast
20253.00
20243.22
20233.43
20223.83
20214.65
20204.53
20193.28
20183.33
20173.43
20163.45

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1970–2022
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1985–2024
  • International Labour Organization2000–2022
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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Malaysia 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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