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Unemployment rate in Tanzania

How hard is it to have a job there?

Tanzania's unemployment rate is 1.57 % — #7 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

1.57%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

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

Unemployment rate in Tanzania over time

3.47 %2.51 %1.56 %3.47 % · 20111.56 % · 20242000: 3.13 %2001: 2.99 %2002: 3.02 %2003: 3.05 %2004: 3.10 %2005: 3.19 %2006: 3.30 %2007: 3.02 %2008: 2.77 %2009: 2.50 %2010: 3.03 %2011: 3.47 %2012: 3.22 %2013: 2.93 %2014: 2.13 %2015: 2.01 %2016: 1.93 %2017: 1.85 %2018: 1.79 %2019: 1.74 %2020: 1.79 %2021: 1.88 %2022: 1.57 %2023: 1.56 %2024: 1.56 %2025: 1.57 %2000201220251.57 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#7 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
94 %
117 of 124 countries
Latest move
▲ 0.02 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
1.90 pp
peak 3.47 % in 2011
Full series
▼ 1.56 pp
since 2000

In Africa: #1 of 21vs median 5.25 %: −3.68 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 %Tanzania: ahead of 94 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentTanzania 1.57 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Tanzania is ahead of 94 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Tanzania
5 Moldova1.50 %−0.07 pp
6 Vietnam1.52 %−0.05 pp
7 Tanzania1.57 %—
8 Cuba1.75 %+0.17 pp
9 Russia2.13 %+0.56 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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