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Unemployment rate in Kyrgyzstan

How hard is it to have a job there?

Kyrgyzstan's unemployment rate is 3.53 % — #37 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

3.53%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

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

Unemployment rate in Kyrgyzstan over time

5.95 %4.04 %2.14 %5.95 % · 20202.14 % · 20002000: 2.14 %2001: 2.27 %2002: 2.42 %2003: 2.55 %2004: 2.68 %2005: 2.82 %2006: 2.96 %2007: 3.09 %2008: 3.21 %2009: 3.34 %2010: 3.50 %2011: 3.64 %2012: 3.79 %2013: 3.88 %2014: 4.02 %2015: 4.14 %2016: 4.29 %2017: 4.42 %2018: 4.56 %2019: 5.45 %2020: 5.95 %2021: 5.15 %2022: 4.77 %2023: 3.50 %2024: 3.49 %2025: 3.53 %2000201220253.53 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#37 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
70 %
87 of 124 countries
Latest move
▲ 0.03 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
2.42 pp
peak 5.95 % in 2020
Full series
▲ 1.38 pp
since 2000

In Asia: #17 of 36vs median 5.25 %: −1.73 pp (better)

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 %Kyrgyzstan: ahead of 70 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentKyrgyzstan 3.53 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Kyrgyzstan is ahead of 70 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Kyrgyzstan
35 Belarus3.38 %−0.15 pp
36 Israel3.49 %−0.04 pp
37 Kyrgyzstan3.53 %—
38 Bulgaria3.54 %+0.01 pp
39 Germany3.71 %+0.19 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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