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Rwanda: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1989–2025 · 15 observations · unemp

2025
5.36%percent
Change on 2024
−6.0 pointsfrom 11.3%
Average, 2017–2025
11.9%9 years
Record high and low
15.6% (2021)low 0.30% (1991)

Unemployment rate

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0%5%10%15%20%19901995200020052010201520202025RwandaRwanda, 2002: 0.895%Rwanda
Percent

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20255.36
202411.3
202312.4
202215.1
202115.6
202013.6
201911.2
201810.8
201711.9
20141.17

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1989–2025
  • African Development Bank2002–2012
  • International Labour Organization2002–2023

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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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