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Unemployment rate in Nepal

How hard is it to have a job there?

Nepal's unemployment rate is 10.46 % — #107 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

10.46%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

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

Unemployment rate in Nepal over time

13.04 %11.74 %10.44 %13.04 % · 202010.44 % · 20232000: 10.53 %2001: 10.50 %2002: 10.59 %2003: 10.64 %2004: 10.65 %2005: 10.59 %2006: 10.61 %2007: 10.64 %2008: 10.60 %2009: 10.58 %2010: 10.56 %2011: 10.63 %2012: 10.63 %2013: 10.67 %2014: 10.62 %2015: 10.64 %2016: 10.71 %2017: 10.66 %2018: 10.59 %2019: 10.48 %2020: 13.04 %2021: 12.24 %2022: 10.66 %2023: 10.44 %2024: 10.50 %2025: 10.46 %20002012202510.46 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#107 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
14 %
17 of 124 countries
Latest move
▼ 0.04 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
2.57 pp
peak 13.04 % in 2020
Full series
▼ 0.07 pp
since 2000

In Asia: #31 of 36vs median 5.25 %: +5.21 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 %Nepal: ahead of 14 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentNepal 10.46 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Nepal is ahead of 14 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Nepal
105 Ukraine9.83 %−0.63 pp
106 Spain10.38 %−0.09 pp
107 Nepal10.46 %—
108 Lebanon10.98 %+0.52 pp
109 Bosnia and Herzegovina11.04 %+0.57 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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