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Pakistan: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1971–2025 · 55 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
7.10%percent
Change on 2024
−0.2 pointsfrom 7.30%
Average, 2016–2025
6.65%10 years
Record high and low
8.27% (2002)low 1.67% (1974)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20315.00Forecast
20305.00Forecast
20295.50Forecast
20286.00Forecast
20276.50Forecast
20266.90Forecast
20257.10
20247.30
20237.50
20226.00
20216.50
20207.68
20196.90
20185.80
20175.83
20165.87

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1971–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1983–2025
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor1990–2025
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2021
  • International Labour Organization2000–2021
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Pakistan 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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