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Myanmar: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1985–2023 · 15 observations · unemp

2023
3.69%percent
Change on 2022
+1.2 pointsfrom 2.50%
Average, 2014–2023
1.93%9 years
Record high and low
6.00% (1990)low 0.13% (2020)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20233.69
20222.50
20211.30
20200.13
20192.70
20180.836
20171.57
20150.766
20143.87
20104.01

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1985–2015
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2005–2022
  • Asian Development Bank2005–2023
  • International Labour Organization2015–2020

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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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