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Unemployment rate in Mozambique

How hard is it to have a job there?

Mozambique's unemployment rate is 6.63 % — #82 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

6.63%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

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

Unemployment rate in Mozambique over time

6.79 %4.81 %2.83 %6.79 % · 20222.83 % · 20002000: 2.83 %2001: 2.84 %2002: 2.90 %2003: 2.86 %2004: 2.95 %2005: 3.04 %2006: 3.04 %2007: 3.08 %2008: 3.11 %2009: 3.21 %2010: 3.26 %2011: 3.29 %2012: 3.30 %2013: 3.35 %2014: 3.38 %2015: 3.43 %2016: 3.65 %2017: 3.94 %2018: 4.21 %2019: 4.46 %2020: 5.02 %2021: 5.41 %2022: 6.79 %2023: 6.66 %2024: 6.67 %2025: 6.63 %2000201220256.63 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#82 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
34 %
42 of 124 countries
Latest move
▼ 0.04 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
0.16 pp
peak 6.79 % in 2022
Full series
▲ 3.80 pp
since 2000

In Africa: #10 of 21vs median 5.25 %: +1.37 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 %Mozambique: ahead of 34 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentMozambique 6.63 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Mozambique is ahead of 34 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Mozambique
80 Barbados6.52 %−0.10 pp
81 Latvia6.57 %−0.06 pp
82 Mozambique6.63 %—
83 Lithuania6.73 %+0.10 pp
84 Egypt6.78 %+0.15 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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