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Papua New Guinea: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1990–2025 · 27 observations · unemp

2025
2.57%percent
Change on 2024
−0.1 pointsfrom 2.63%
Average, 2016–2025
2.68%10 years
Record high and low
7.70% (1990)low 2.00% (2010)

Unemployment rate

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2%3%4%5%6%7%8%19901995200020052010201520202025Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea, 1990: 7.70%Papua New Guinea
Percent

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20252.57
20242.63
20232.65
20222.69
20213.03
20202.90
20192.65
20182.65
20172.58
20162.48

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1990–2022
  • International Labour Organization2000–2022
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025

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Papua New Guinea 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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