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Unemployment rate in Haiti

How hard is it to have a job there?

Haiti's unemployment rate is 14.94 % — #117 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

14.94%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

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

Unemployment rate in Haiti over time

16.80 %12.62 %8.44 %16.80 % · 20078.44 % · 20002000: 8.44 %2001: 9.73 %2002: 11.01 %2003: 12.15 %2004: 13.41 %2005: 14.56 %2006: 15.87 %2007: 16.80 %2008: 16.20 %2009: 15.40 %2010: 15.24 %2011: 14.51 %2012: 14.10 %2013: 13.70 %2014: 13.81 %2015: 13.79 %2016: 13.90 %2017: 13.93 %2018: 13.93 %2019: 14.10 %2020: 15.57 %2021: 15.30 %2022: 14.54 %2023: 14.46 %2024: 14.61 %2025: 14.94 %20002012202514.94 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#117 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
6 %
7 of 124 countries
Latest move
▲ 0.34 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
1.86 pp
peak 16.80 % in 2007
Full series
▲ 6.50 pp
since 2000

In Americas: #27 of 27vs median 5.25 %: +9.69 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 %Haiti: ahead of 6 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentHaiti 14.94 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Haiti 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 Haiti
115 Montenegro13.57 %−1.37 pp
116 Angola14.11 %−0.84 pp
117 Haiti14.94 %—
118 Tunisia15.11 %+0.16 pp
119 Iraq15.48 %+0.54 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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