TOP 50

Rank	Country	Unemployment rate (%)
1	Burkina Faso	77
2	Syria	50
3	Senegal	48
4	Haiti	40.6
5	Djibouti	40
6	Kenya	40
7	Congo, Republic of the	36
8	Marshall Islands	36
9	Namibia	34
10	Bosnia and Herzegovina	33.28
11	Kiribati	30.6
12	Kosovo	30.5
13	Libya	30
14	American Samoa	29.8
15	South Africa	28.53
16	Lesotho	28.1
17	Gabon	28
18	Swaziland	28
19	Gaza Strip	27.9
20	West Bank	27.9
21	Yemen	27
22	Korea, North	25.6
23	Mozambique	24.5
24	Grenada	24
25	Afghanistan	23.9
26	Dominica	23
27	Nauru	23
28	French Polynesia	21.8
29	Malawi	20.4
30	Botswana	20
31	Saint Lucia	20
32	Sudan	19.6
33	Jordan	19.1
34	Armenia	18.9
35	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	18.8
36	Ethiopia	17.5
37	Greece	17.3
38	Macedonia	17.29
39	Nigeria	16.5
40	Micronesia, Federated States of	16.2
41	Iraq	16
42	Montenegro	15.82
43	Tunisia	15.5
44	Sierra Leone	15
45	Zambia	15
46	New Caledonia	14.7
47	Spain	14.13
48	Serbia	14.1
49	Saint Helena	14
50	Turkey	13.68

Definition: This entry contains the percent of the labor force that is without jobs. Substantial underemployment might be noted.

Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2020