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Unemployment rate in Angola

How hard is it to have a job there?

Angola's unemployment rate is 14.11 % — #116 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

14.11%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

Source: World Bank open data (GDP growth, GDP/capita, unemployment, government debt)

Unemployment rate in Angola over time

16.77 %15.39 %14.02 %16.77 % · 201114.02 % · 20242000: 16.65 %2001: 16.67 %2002: 16.43 %2003: 16.45 %2004: 16.31 %2005: 16.30 %2006: 16.12 %2007: 16.07 %2008: 16.15 %2009: 16.38 %2010: 16.59 %2011: 16.77 %2012: 16.54 %2013: 16.46 %2014: 16.37 %2015: 16.47 %2016: 16.57 %2017: 16.62 %2018: 16.60 %2019: 16.50 %2020: 16.70 %2021: 15.80 %2022: 14.12 %2023: 14.05 %2024: 14.02 %2025: 14.11 %20002012202514.11 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#116 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
6 %
8 of 124 countries
Latest move
▲ 0.09 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
2.66 pp
peak 16.77 % in 2011
Full series
▼ 2.54 pp
since 2000

In Africa: #16 of 21vs median 5.25 %: +8.85 pp (worse)

Among 124 countries

6 of 124 countries between 0.78 % and 1.53 %6 of 124 countries between 1.53 % and 2.28 %12 of 124 countries between 2.28 % and 3.03 %16 of 124 countries between 3.03 % and 3.78 %7 of 124 countries between 3.78 % and 4.53 %15 of 124 countries between 4.53 % and 5.28 %14 of 124 countries between 5.28 % and 6.02 %7 of 124 countries between 6.02 % and 6.77 %6 of 124 countries between 6.77 % and 7.52 %2 of 124 countries between 7.52 % and 8.27 %10 of 124 countries between 8.27 % and 9.02 %3 of 124 countries between 9.02 % and 9.77 %3 of 124 countries between 9.77 % and 10.52 %2 of 124 countries between 10.52 % and 11.27 %3 of 124 countries between 11.27 % and 12.02 %1 of 124 countries between 12.02 % and 12.77 %1 of 124 countries between 12.77 % and 13.51 %2 of 124 countries between 13.51 % and 14.26 %1 of 124 countries between 14.26 % and 15.01 %2 of 124 countries between 15.01 % and 15.76 %1 of 124 countries between 16.51 % and 17.26 %4 of 124 countries between 18.01 % and 18.76 %median 5.23 %Angola: ahead of 6 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentAngola 14.11 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Angola is ahead of 6 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Angola
114 Armenia12.87 %−1.24 pp
115 Montenegro13.57 %−0.54 pp
116 Angola14.11 %—
117 Haiti14.94 %+0.84 pp
118 Tunisia15.11 %+1.00 pp

Unemployment, share of the labour force (World Bank / ILO estimate).

How to read this figure

Share of the labour force without work but actively seeking it (World Bank / ILO harmonised estimate). People outside the labour force — students, carers, the discouraged — are not counted.

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