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Vietnam: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1990–2025 · 36 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
2.20%percent
Change on 2024
0.0 pointsfrom 2.20%
Average, 2016–2025
2.36%10 years
Record high and low
12.3% (1990)low 1.96% (2012)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20312.18Forecast
20302.18Forecast
20292.21Forecast
20282.21Forecast
20272.20Forecast
20262.10Forecast
20252.20
20242.20
20232.30
20222.32
20213.20
20202.48
20192.17
20182.19
20172.24
20162.30

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1996–2024
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor2008–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Vietnam 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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