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Unemployment rate in Libya

How hard is it to have a job there?

Libya's unemployment rate is 18.76 % — #121 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

18.76%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

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

Unemployment rate in Libya over time

19.78 %19.22 %18.66 %19.78 % · 202118.66 % · 20052000: 19.27 %2001: 19.24 %2002: 19.28 %2003: 19.07 %2004: 18.94 %2005: 18.66 %2006: 18.80 %2007: 18.77 %2008: 19.04 %2009: 19.29 %2010: 19.32 %2011: 19.50 %2012: 19.03 %2013: 19.31 %2014: 19.30 %2015: 19.69 %2016: 19.56 %2017: 19.05 %2018: 18.86 %2019: 19.09 %2020: 19.65 %2021: 19.78 %2022: 19.24 %2023: 18.71 %2024: 19.09 %2025: 18.76 %20002012202518.76 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#121 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
2 %
3 of 124 countries
Latest move
▼ 0.33 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
1.02 pp
peak 19.78 % in 2021
Full series
▼ 0.52 pp
since 2000

In Africa: #18 of 21vs median 5.25 %: +13.50 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 %Libya: ahead of 2 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentLibya 18.76 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Libya is ahead of 2 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Libya
119 Iraq15.48 %−3.27 pp
120 Jordan16.54 %−2.22 pp
121 Libya18.76 %—
122 Namibia19.29 %+0.53 pp
123 Botswana24.48 %+5.72 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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