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Unemployment rate in Madagascar

How hard is it to have a job there?

Madagascar's unemployment rate is 3.04 % — #26 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

3.04%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

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

Unemployment rate in Madagascar over time

5.80 %3.20 %0.60 %5.80 % · 20000.60 % · 20122000: 5.80 %2001: 5.35 %2002: 5.51 %2003: 5.01 %2004: 3.95 %2005: 2.62 %2006: 2.94 %2007: 3.20 %2008: 3.43 %2009: 3.88 %2010: 4.28 %2011: 2.52 %2012: 0.60 %2013: 0.99 %2014: 1.39 %2015: 1.78 %2016: 1.95 %2017: 2.12 %2018: 2.30 %2019: 2.48 %2020: 3.29 %2021: 3.50 %2022: 3.19 %2023: 3.04 %2024: 3.05 %2025: 3.04 %2000201220253.04 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#26 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
79 %
98 of 124 countries
Latest move
▼ 0.01 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
2.76 pp
peak 5.80 % in 2000
Full series
▼ 2.76 pp
since 2000

In Africa: #3 of 21vs median 5.25 %: −2.21 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 %Madagascar: ahead of 79 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentMadagascar 3.04 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Madagascar is ahead of 79 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Madagascar
24 Ghana2.98 %−0.06 pp
25 Saudi Arabia3.04 %−0.00 pp
26 Madagascar3.04 %—
27 Myanmar3.05 %+0.01 pp
28 Nigeria3.06 %+0.02 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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