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Unemployment rate in Thailand

How hard is it to have a job there?

Thailand's unemployment rate is 0.78 % — #3 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

0.78%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

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

Unemployment rate in Thailand over time

2.60 %1.42 %0.25 %2.60 % · 20010.25 % · 20132000: 2.39 %2001: 2.60 %2002: 1.82 %2003: 1.54 %2004: 1.51 %2005: 1.35 %2006: 1.22 %2007: 1.18 %2008: 1.18 %2009: 1.49 %2010: 0.62 %2011: 0.66 %2012: 0.58 %2013: 0.25 %2014: 0.58 %2015: 0.60 %2016: 0.69 %2017: 0.83 %2018: 0.77 %2019: 0.72 %2020: 1.10 %2021: 1.22 %2022: 0.94 %2023: 0.73 %2024: 0.78 %2025: 0.78 %2000201220250.78 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#3 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
98 %
121 of 124 countries
Latest move
unchanged
since 2024
Below its peak
1.82 pp
peak 2.60 % in 2001
Full series
▼ 1.61 pp
since 2000

In Asia: #3 of 36vs median 5.25 %: −4.47 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 %Thailand: ahead of 98 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentThailand 0.78 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Thailand is ahead of 98 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Thailand
1 Qatar0.13 %−0.65 pp
2 Cambodia0.26 %−0.52 pp
3 Thailand0.78 %—
4 Bahrain1.10 %+0.32 pp
5 Moldova1.50 %+0.72 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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