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Zambia: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1986–2024 · 20 observations · unemp

2024
5.72%percent
Change on 2023
−0.2 pointsfrom 5.95%
Average, 2015–2024
6.29%9 years
Record high and low
19.7% (1993)low 4.73% (2017)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20245.72
20235.95
20226.10
20215.65
20206.03
20195.54
20185.03
20174.73
201511.9
20127.86

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1986–2024
  • African Development Bank2000–2012
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023

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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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