Countries with Lowest Unemployment (2026)

Qatar has one of the lowest unemployment rates at just 0.1%. Low unemployment indicates a strong labor market, though it can also reflect data limitations in informal economies.

#1

Qatar

0.1%

#2

Cambodia

0.3%

#3

Niger

0.4%

Countries with Lowest Unemployment - 186 countries ranked by Unemployment

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