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Syria: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1969–2011 · 33 observations · unemp

2011
14.9%percent
Change on 2010
+6.3 pointsfrom 8.61%
Average, 2002–2011
10.2%10 years
Record high and low
16.8% (1997)low 3.80% (1979)

Unemployment rate

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2%4%6%8%10%12%14%16%18%19701980199020002010SyriaSyria
Percent

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
201114.9
20108.61
20098.14
200810.9
20078.41
20068.18
20058.09
200412.3
200310.8
200211.7

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1969–2011
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1997–2010
  • International Labour Organization2001–2010
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2010

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Syria 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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