Countries with Highest Unemployment (2026)

Eswatini has the highest unemployment rate at 34.2%. High unemployment is often driven by economic instability, conflict, structural economic issues, or rapid population growth outpacing job creation.

#1

Eswatini

34.2%

#2

South Africa

32.4%

#3

Djibouti

26.0%

Countries with Highest Unemployment - 186 countries ranked by Unemployment

Rank	Country	Unemployment	Population	Region
1	Eswatini	34.2%	1,235,549	Africa
2	South Africa	32.4%	63,100,945	Africa
3	Djibouti	26.0%	1,066,809	Africa
4	Botswana	24.5%	2,359,609	Africa
5	Palestine	24.4%	5,483,450	Asia
6	Gabon	20.1%	2,469,296	Africa
7	Republic of the Congo	19.9%	6,142,180	Africa
8	Namibia	19.3%	3,022,401	Africa
9	Somalia	18.9%	19,655,000	Africa
10	Libya	18.8%	7,459,000	Africa
11	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	18.0%	110,872	Americas
12	Yemen	17.3%	32,684,503	Asia
13	Jordan	16.5%	11,734,000	Asia
14	Lesotho	16.3%	2,116,427	Africa
15	Iraq	15.5%	46,118,793	Asia
16	Tunisia	15.1%	11,972,169	Africa
17	Haiti	14.9%	11,867,032	Americas
18	Angola	14.1%	36,170,961	Africa
19	Syria	13.6%	25,620,000	Asia
20	Montenegro	13.6%	623,327	Europe
21	Afghanistan	13.3%	43,844,000	Asia
22	Armenia	12.9%	3,076,200	Asia
23	South Sudan	12.4%	15,786,898	Africa
24	North Macedonia	12.3%	1,822,612	Europe
25	Georgia	12.1%	4,000,921	Asia
26	Guyana	12.0%	772,975	Americas
27	Cape Verde	11.9%	491,233	Africa
28	French Polynesia	11.7%	279,500	Oceania
29	Algeria	11.6%	47,400,000	Africa
30	United States Virgin Islands	11.4%	87,146	Americas
31	Rwanda	11.4%	14,104,969	Africa
32	New Caledonia	11.2%	264,596	Oceania
33	Bosnia and Herzegovina	11.0%	3,422,000	Europe
34	Lebanon	11.0%	5,490,000	Asia
35	Albania	10.9%	2,363,314	Europe
36	Nepal	10.5%	29,911,840	Asia
37	Spain	10.4%	49,315,949	Europe
38	Mauritania	10.3%	4,927,532	Africa
39	Ukraine	9.8%	32,862,000	Europe
40	Finland	9.5%	5,650,325	Europe
41	Saint Lucia	9.4%	184,100	Americas
42	Zimbabwe	9.3%	17,073,087	Africa
43	Bahamas	9.2%	398,165	Americas
44	São Tomé and Príncipe	9.1%	209,607	Africa
45	Morocco	9.0%	36,828,330	Africa
46	Chile	9.0%	20,206,953	Americas
47	Belize	8.9%	417,634	Americas
48	Sweden	8.7%	10,605,098	Europe
49	Greece	8.5%	10,400,720	Europe
50	Turkey	8.5%	85,664,944	Asia
51	Panama	8.4%	4,064,780	Americas
52	Equatorial Guinea	8.3%	1,668,768	Africa
53	Estonia	8.3%	1,369,995	Europe
54	Iran	8.3%	85,961,000	Asia
55	Colombia	8.3%	53,057,212	Americas
56	Suriname	7.8%	616,500	Americas
57	France	7.5%	66,351,959	Europe
58	Sudan	7.5%	51,662,000	Africa
59	Uruguay	7.5%	3,499,451	Americas
60	Argentina	7.2%	46,735,004	Americas
61	Serbia	7.1%	6,567,783	Europe
62	Tajikistan	6.9%	10,499,000	Asia
63	Canada	6.9%	41,651,653	Americas
64	Costa Rica	6.8%	5,309,625	Americas
65	Egypt	6.8%	107,271,260	Africa
66	Lithuania	6.7%	2,894,886	Europe
67	Mozambique	6.6%	34,090,466	Africa
68	Latvia	6.6%	1,829,000	Europe
69	Gambia	6.5%	2,422,712	Africa
70	Barbados	6.5%	267,800	Americas
71	Italy	6.4%	58,927,633	Europe
72	Luxembourg	6.3%	681,973	Europe
73	Central African Republic	6.3%	6,470,307	Africa
74	Portugal	6.2%	10,749,635	Europe
75	Romania	6.0%	19,036,031	Europe
76	Puerto Rico	6.0%	3,203,295	Americas
77	Eritrea	6.0%	3,607,000	Africa
78	Brazil	6.0%	213,421,037	Americas
79	Zambia	5.9%	19,693,423	Africa
80	Belgium	5.9%	11,825,551	Europe
81	Mauritius	5.6%	1,243,741	Africa
82	Austria	5.6%	9,200,931	Europe
83	Guam	5.6%	153,836	Oceania
84	Denmark	5.5%	6,011,488	Europe
85	Azerbaijan	5.5%	10,241,722	Asia
86	Kenya	5.5%	53,330,978	Africa
87	Pakistan	5.4%	241,499,431	Asia
88	Slovakia	5.4%	5,413,813	Europe
89	Fiji	5.3%	900,869	Oceania
90	Venezuela	5.3%	28,517,000	Americas
91	Brunei	5.3%	455,500	Asia
92	Mongolia	5.2%	3,544,835	Asia
93	Guinea	5.2%	14,363,931	Africa
94	Peru	5.1%	34,350,244	Americas
95	Dominican Republic	5.1%	10,771,504	Americas
96	New Zealand	5.1%	5,324,700	Oceania
97	Malawi	5.1%	20,734,262	Africa
98	Vanuatu	5.1%	321,409	Oceania
99	Nicaragua	5.0%	6,803,886	Americas
100	Croatia	5.0%	3,866,233	Europe
101	Samoa	5.0%	205,557	Oceania
102	Honduras	4.9%	9,892,632	Americas
103	Cyprus	4.9%	1,442,614	Europe
104	Switzerland	4.9%	9,082,848	Europe
105	Paraguay	4.8%	6,109,644	Americas
106	Kazakhstan	4.8%	20,426,568	Asia
107	United Kingdom	4.8%	69,281,437	Europe
108	Norway	4.6%	5,606,944	Europe
109	Ireland	4.6%	5,458,600	Europe
110	China	4.6%	1,408,280,000	Asia
111	Uzbekistan	4.6%	37,859,698	Asia
112	Hungary	4.5%	9,539,502	Europe
113	Maldives	4.5%	515,132	Asia
114	DR Congo	4.4%	112,832,000	Africa
115	Turkmenistan	4.3%	7,057,841	Asia
116	India	4.2%	1,417,492,000	Asia
117	United States	4.2%	340,110,988	Americas
118	Australia	4.1%	27,536,874	Oceania
119	Sri Lanka	4.0%	21,763,170	Asia
120	Netherlands	3.9%	18,100,436	Europe
121	Comoros	3.8%	919,901	Africa
122	Bangladesh	3.8%	169,828,911	Asia
123	Malaysia	3.8%	34,231,700	Asia
124	Germany	3.7%	83,491,249	Europe
125	Iceland	3.6%	391,810	Europe
126	Cameroon	3.6%	29,442,327	Africa
127	North Korea	3.5%	25,950,000	Asia
128	Bulgaria	3.5%	6,437,360	Europe
129	Kyrgyzstan	3.5%	7,281,800	Asia
130	Israel	3.5%	10,134,800	Asia
131	Burkina Faso	3.5%	24,070,553	Africa
132	Belarus	3.4%	9,109,280	Europe
133	Trinidad and Tobago	3.3%	1,367,764	Americas
134	Ethiopia	3.3%	111,652,998	Africa
135	Ecuador	3.3%	18,103,660	Americas
136	El Salvador	3.3%	6,029,976	Americas
137	Jamaica	3.3%	2,825,544	Americas
138	Oman	3.3%	5,343,630	Asia
139	Indonesia	3.2%	284,438,782	Asia
140	Bhutan	3.2%	784,043	Asia
141	Slovenia	3.2%	2,130,638	Europe
142	Sierra Leone	3.1%	9,077,691	Africa
143	Nigeria	3.1%	223,800,000	Africa
144	Myanmar	3.0%	51,316,756	Asia
145	Saudi Arabia	3.0%	35,300,280	Asia
146	Madagascar	3.0%	31,727,042	Africa
147	Poland	3.0%	37,392,000	Europe
148	Ghana	3.0%	33,742,380	Africa
149	Bolivia	3.0%	11,365,333	Americas
150	Malta	2.9%	574,250	Europe
151	Liberia	2.9%	5,248,621	Africa
152	Mali	2.8%	22,395,489	Africa
153	Czechia	2.8%	10,882,341	Europe
154	Singapore	2.8%	6,110,200	Asia
155	Hong Kong	2.8%	7,527,500	Asia
156	Uganda	2.8%	45,905,417	Africa
157	Senegal	2.7%	18,593,258	Africa
158	South Korea	2.7%	51,159,889	Asia
159	Mexico	2.7%	130,575,786	Americas
160	Guinea-Bissau	2.7%	1,781,308	Africa
161	Guatemala	2.6%	18,079,810	Americas
162	Papua New Guinea	2.6%	11,781,559	Oceania
163	Japan	2.5%	123,210,000	Asia
164	Macau	2.4%	685,900	Asia
165	Ivory Coast	2.3%	31,719,275	Africa
166	Philippines	2.2%	114,123,600	Asia
167	Kuwait	2.2%	4,881,254	Asia
168	United Arab Emirates	2.2%	11,294,243	Asia
169	Russia	2.1%	146,028,325	Europe
170	Tonga	2.0%	100,179	Oceania
171	Togo	2.0%	8,095,498	Africa
172	Cuba	1.8%	9,748,007	Americas
173	Benin	1.6%	13,224,860	Africa
174	Timor-Leste	1.6%	1,391,221	Asia
175	Tanzania	1.6%	68,153,004	Africa
176	Vietnam	1.5%	101,343,800	Asia
177	Moldova	1.5%	2,749,076	Europe
178	Solomon Islands	1.4%	750,325	Oceania
179	Laos	1.2%	7,647,000	Asia
180	Bahrain	1.1%	1,594,654	Asia
181	Chad	1.1%	19,340,757	Africa
182	Burundi	0.9%	12,332,788	Africa
183	Thailand	0.8%	65,859,640	Asia
184	Niger	0.4%	26,312,034	Africa
185	Cambodia	0.3%	17,577,760	Asia
186	Qatar	0.1%	3,173,024	Asia