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Nepal: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1996–2018 · 12 observations · unemp

2018
11.4%percent
Change on 2017
+0.7 pointsfrom 10.7%
Average, 2011–2018
5.08%7 years
Record high and low
11.4% (2018)low 1.38% (2008)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
201811.4
201710.7
20153.10
20142.70
20133.00
20123.10
20111.63
20081.38
20043.80
20031.48

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1996–2015
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2004–2018
  • Asian Development Bank2004–2018
  • International Labour Organization2008–2017

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Nepal 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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