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Turkey: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1960–2025 · 66 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
8.30%percent
Change on 2024
−0.4 pointsfrom 8.70%
Average, 2016–2025
10.8%10 years
Record high and low
13.7% (2019)low 5.61% (1972)

Unemployment rate

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4%6%8%10%12%14%19601970198019902000201020202030TurkeyTurkey
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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20319.14Forecast
20309.14Forecast
20299.14Forecast
20289.09Forecast
20278.67Forecast
20268.58Forecast
20258.30
20248.70
20239.40
202210.4
202112.0
202013.1
201913.7
201810.9
201710.9
201610.9

Sources

  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1982–2025
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2005–2024
  • OECD Key Economic Indicators2005–2025
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor2005–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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