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%	1,242,822	Africa
2	South Africa	32.4%	64,007,187	Africa
3	Djibouti	26.0%	1,168,722	Africa
4	Botswana	24.5%	2,521,139	Africa
5	Palestine	24.4%	5,289,152	Asia
6	Gabon	20.1%	2,538,952	Africa
7	Republic of the Congo	19.9%	6,332,961	Africa
8	Namibia	19.3%	3,030,131	Africa
9	Somalia	18.9%	19,009,151	Africa
10	Libya	18.8%	7,381,023	Africa
11	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	18.0%	100,616	Americas
12	Yemen	17.3%	40,583,164	Asia
13	Jordan	16.5%	11,552,876	Asia
14	Lesotho	16.3%	2,337,423	Africa
15	Iraq	15.5%	46,042,015	Asia
16	Tunisia	15.1%	12,277,109	Africa
17	Haiti	14.9%	11,772,557	Americas
18	Angola	14.1%	37,885,849	Africa
19	Syria	13.6%	24,672,760	Asia
20	Montenegro	13.6%	623,525	Europe
21	Afghanistan	13.3%	42,647,492	Asia
22	Armenia	12.9%	3,033,500	Asia
23	South Sudan	12.4%	11,943,408	Africa
24	North Macedonia	12.3%	1,824,359	Europe
25	Georgia	12.1%	3,699,557	Asia
26	Guyana	12.0%	831,087	Americas
27	Cape Verde	11.9%	524,877	Africa
28	French Polynesia	11.7%	281,807	Oceania
29	Algeria	11.6%	46,814,308	Africa
30	United States Virgin Islands	11.4%	104,377	Americas
31	Rwanda	11.4%	14,256,567	Africa
32	New Caledonia	11.2%	292,639	Oceania
33	Bosnia and Herzegovina	11.0%	3,164,253	Europe
34	Lebanon	11.0%	5,805,962	Asia
35	Albania	10.9%	2,377,128	Europe
36	Nepal	10.5%	29,651,054	Asia
37	Spain	10.4%	48,848,840	Europe
38	Mauritania	10.3%	5,169,395	Africa
39	Ukraine	9.8%	37,860,221	Europe
40	Finland	9.5%	5,619,911	Europe
41	Saint Lucia	9.4%	179,744	Americas
42	Zimbabwe	9.3%	16,634,373	Africa
43	Bahamas	9.2%	401,283	Americas
44	São Tomé and Príncipe	9.1%	235,536	Africa
45	Morocco	9.0%	38,081,173	Africa
46	Chile	9.0%	19,764,771	Americas
47	Belize	8.9%	417,072	Americas
48	Sweden	8.7%	10,569,709	Europe
49	Greece	8.5%	10,405,134	Europe
50	Turkey	8.5%	85,518,661	Asia
51	Panama	8.4%	4,515,577	Americas
52	Equatorial Guinea	8.3%	1,892,516	Africa
53	Estonia	8.3%	1,372,341	Europe
54	Iran	8.3%	91,567,738	Asia
55	Colombia	8.3%	52,886,363	Americas
56	Suriname	7.8%	634,431	Americas
57	France	7.5%	68,551,653	Europe
58	Sudan	7.5%	50,448,963	Africa
59	Uruguay	7.5%	3,386,588	Americas
60	Argentina	7.2%	45,696,159	Americas
61	Serbia	7.1%	6,586,476	Europe
62	Tajikistan	6.9%	10,590,927	Asia
63	Canada	6.9%	41,288,599	Americas
64	Costa Rica	6.8%	5,129,910	Americas
65	Egypt	6.8%	116,538,258	Africa
66	Lithuania	6.7%	2,888,278	Europe
67	Mozambique	6.6%	34,631,766	Africa
68	Latvia	6.6%	1,866,124	Europe
69	Gambia	6.5%	2,759,988	Africa
70	Barbados	6.5%	282,467	Americas
71	Italy	6.4%	58,952,704	Europe
72	Luxembourg	6.3%	677,012	Europe
73	Central African Republic	6.3%	5,330,690	Africa
74	Portugal	6.2%	10,694,681	Europe
75	Romania	6.0%	19,051,804	Europe
76	Puerto Rico	6.0%	3,203,295	Americas
77	Eritrea	6.0%	3,535,603	Africa
78	Brazil	6.0%	211,998,573	Americas
79	Zambia	5.9%	21,314,956	Africa
80	Belgium	5.9%	11,858,610	Europe
81	Mauritius	5.6%	1,245,779	Africa
82	Austria	5.6%	9,177,982	Europe
83	Guam	5.6%	167,777	Oceania
84	Denmark	5.5%	5,976,992	Europe
85	Azerbaijan	5.5%	10,202,830	Asia
86	Kenya	5.5%	56,432,944	Africa
87	Pakistan	5.4%	251,269,164	Asia
88	Slovakia	5.4%	5,422,069	Europe
89	Fiji	5.3%	928,784	Oceania
90	Venezuela	5.3%	28,405,543	Americas
91	Brunei	5.3%	462,721	Asia
92	Mongolia	5.2%	3,524,788	Asia
93	Guinea	5.2%	14,754,785	Africa
94	Peru	5.1%	34,217,848	Americas
95	Dominican Republic	5.1%	11,427,557	Americas
96	New Zealand	5.1%	5,287,500	Oceania
97	Malawi	5.1%	21,655,286	Africa
98	Vanuatu	5.1%	327,777	Oceania
99	Nicaragua	5.0%	6,916,140	Americas
100	Croatia	5.0%	3,866,200	Europe
101	Samoa	5.0%	218,019	Oceania
102	Honduras	4.9%	10,825,703	Americas
103	Cyprus	4.9%	1,358,282	Europe
104	Switzerland	4.9%	9,005,582	Europe
105	Paraguay	4.8%	6,929,153	Americas
106	Kazakhstan	4.8%	20,592,571	Asia
107	United Kingdom	4.8%	69,226,000	Europe
108	Norway	4.6%	5,572,279	Europe
109	Ireland	4.6%	5,395,790	Europe
110	China	4.6%	1,408,975,000	Asia
111	Uzbekistan	4.6%	36,361,859	Asia
112	Hungary	4.5%	9,562,065	Europe
113	Maldives	4.5%	527,799	Asia
114	DR Congo	4.4%	109,276,265	Africa
115	Turkmenistan	4.3%	7,494,498	Asia
116	India	4.2%	1,450,935,791	Asia
117	United States	4.2%	340,110,988	Americas
118	Australia	4.1%	27,196,812	Oceania
119	Sri Lanka	4.0%	21,916,000	Asia
120	Netherlands	3.9%	17,993,485	Europe
121	Comoros	3.8%	866,628	Africa
122	Bangladesh	3.8%	173,562,364	Asia
123	Malaysia	3.8%	35,557,673	Asia
124	Germany	3.7%	83,516,593	Europe
125	Iceland	3.6%	386,506	Europe
126	Cameroon	3.6%	29,123,744	Africa
127	North Korea	3.5%	26,498,823	Asia
128	Bulgaria	3.5%	6,441,421	Europe
129	Kyrgyzstan	3.5%	7,221,868	Asia
130	Israel	3.5%	9,974,400	Asia
131	Burkina Faso	3.5%	23,548,781	Africa
132	Belarus	3.4%	9,132,629	Europe
133	Trinidad and Tobago	3.3%	1,368,333	Americas
134	Ethiopia	3.3%	132,059,767	Africa
135	Ecuador	3.3%	18,135,478	Americas
136	El Salvador	3.3%	6,338,193	Americas
137	Jamaica	3.3%	2,839,175	Americas
138	Oman	3.3%	5,281,538	Asia
139	Indonesia	3.2%	283,487,931	Asia
140	Bhutan	3.2%	791,524	Asia
141	Slovenia	3.2%	2,127,400	Europe
142	Sierra Leone	3.1%	8,642,022	Africa
143	Nigeria	3.1%	232,679,478	Africa
144	Myanmar	3.0%	54,500,091	Asia
145	Saudi Arabia	3.0%	35,300,280	Asia
146	Madagascar	3.0%	31,964,956	Africa
147	Poland	3.0%	36,559,233	Europe
148	Ghana	3.0%	34,427,414	Africa
149	Bolivia	3.0%	12,413,315	Americas
150	Malta	2.9%	568,847	Europe
151	Liberia	2.9%	5,612,817	Africa
152	Mali	2.8%	24,478,595	Africa
153	Czechia	2.8%	10,905,028	Europe
154	Singapore	2.8%	6,036,860	Asia
155	Hong Kong	2.8%	7,524,100	Asia
156	Uganda	2.8%	50,015,092	Africa
157	Senegal	2.7%	18,501,984	Africa
158	South Korea	2.7%	51,751,065	Asia
159	Mexico	2.7%	130,861,007	Americas
160	Guinea-Bissau	2.7%	2,201,352	Africa
161	Guatemala	2.6%	18,406,359	Americas
162	Papua New Guinea	2.6%	10,576,502	Oceania
163	Japan	2.5%	123,975,371	Asia
164	Macau	2.4%	687,000	Asia
165	Ivory Coast	2.3%	31,934,230	Africa
166	Philippines	2.2%	115,843,670	Asia
167	Kuwait	2.2%	4,897,263	Asia
168	United Arab Emirates	2.2%	10,986,400	Asia
169	Russia	2.1%	143,533,851	Europe
170	Tonga	2.0%	104,175	Oceania
171	Togo	2.0%	9,515,236	Africa
172	Cuba	1.8%	10,979,783	Americas
173	Benin	1.6%	14,462,724	Africa
174	Timor-Leste	1.6%	1,400,638	Asia
175	Tanzania	1.6%	68,560,157	Africa
176	Vietnam	1.5%	100,987,686	Asia
177	Moldova	1.5%	2,402,306	Europe
178	Solomon Islands	1.4%	819,198	Oceania
179	Laos	1.2%	7,769,819	Asia
180	Bahrain	1.1%	1,588,670	Asia
181	Chad	1.1%	20,299,123	Africa
182	Burundi	0.9%	14,047,786	Africa
183	Thailand	0.8%	71,668,011	Asia
184	Niger	0.4%	27,032,412	Africa
185	Cambodia	0.3%	17,638,801	Asia
186	Qatar	0.1%	2,857,822	Asia