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Yemen: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1977–2014 · 18 observations · unemp

2014
13.4%percent
Average, 2005–2014
15.4%7 years
Record high and low
57.8% (1977)low 8.34% (1994)

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
201413.4
201017.8
200914.6
200815.0
200715.3
200615.7
200516.0
200416.2
199911.5
19948.34

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1977–2014
  • International Labour Organization2004–2014

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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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