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Unemployment rate in Zimbabwe

How hard is it to have a job there?

Zimbabwe's unemployment rate is 9.29 % — #103 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

9.29%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

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

Unemployment rate in Zimbabwe over time

10.09 %7.24 %4.39 %10.09 % · 20224.39 % · 20042000: 5.68 %2001: 5.31 %2002: 5.00 %2003: 4.74 %2004: 4.39 %2005: 4.63 %2006: 4.77 %2007: 5.01 %2008: 5.40 %2009: 5.48 %2010: 5.47 %2011: 5.37 %2012: 5.06 %2013: 4.95 %2014: 4.77 %2015: 5.40 %2016: 5.90 %2017: 6.35 %2018: 6.79 %2019: 7.37 %2020: 8.62 %2021: 9.54 %2022: 10.09 %2023: 9.35 %2024: 9.44 %2025: 9.29 %2000201220259.29 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#103 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
17 %
21 of 124 countries
Latest move
▼ 0.14 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
0.79 pp
peak 10.09 % in 2022
Full series
▲ 3.61 pp
since 2000

In Africa: #13 of 21vs median 5.25 %: +4.04 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 %Zimbabwe: ahead of 17 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentZimbabwe 9.29 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Zimbabwe is ahead of 17 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Zimbabwe
101 Morocco9.00 %−0.29 pp
102 Bahamas9.21 %−0.09 pp
103 Zimbabwe9.29 %—
104 Finland9.46 %+0.17 pp
105 Ukraine9.83 %+0.54 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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