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Sao Tome and Principe: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1979–2017 · 39 observations · unemp

2017
13.5%percent
Change on 2016
+0.1 pointsfrom 13.4%
Average, 2008–2017
14.0%10 years
Record high and low
17.6% (2002)low 0.61% (1979)

Unemployment rate

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0%5%10%15%20%19801985199019952000200520102015Sao Tome and PrincipeSao Tome and Principe
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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
201713.5
201613.4
201513.4
201413.5
201313.5
201213.6
201114.1
201014.6
200915.1
200815.7

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1979–2017
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2017
  • African Development Bank2000–2012
  • International Labour Organization2000–2017
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2017

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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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