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Unemployment rate in Slovenia

How hard is it to have a job there?

Slovenia's unemployment rate is 3.17 % — #29 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

3.17%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

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

Unemployment rate in Slovenia over time

10.10 %6.64 %3.17 %10.10 % · 20132000: 6.92 %2001: 5.68 %2002: 5.92 %2003: 6.48 %2004: 6.01 %2005: 6.51 %2006: 5.95 %2007: 4.82 %2008: 4.37 %2009: 5.86 %2010: 7.24 %2011: 8.17 %2012: 8.84 %2013: 10.10 %2014: 9.67 %2015: 8.96 %2016: 8.00 %2017: 6.56 %2018: 5.11 %2019: 4.45 %2020: 4.97 %2021: 4.74 %2022: 4.01 %2023: 3.65 %2024: 3.70 %2025: 3.17 %2000201220253.17 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#29 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
77 %
95 of 124 countries
Latest move
▼ 0.53 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
6.93 pp
peak 10.10 % in 2013
Full series
▼ 3.74 pp
since 2000

In Europe: #6 of 36vs median 5.25 %: −2.08 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 %Slovenia: ahead of 77 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentSlovenia 3.17 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Slovenia is ahead of 77 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Slovenia
27 Myanmar3.05 %−0.13 pp
28 Nigeria3.06 %−0.11 pp
29 Slovenia3.17 %—
30 Indonesia3.24 %+0.06 pp
31 El Salvador3.30 %+0.13 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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