Afghanistan Unemployment Rate

Unemployment Rate in Afghanistan remained unchanged at 8.80 percent in 2018 from 8.80 percent in 2017. Unemployment Rate in Afghanistan averaged 9.57 percent from 1991 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 12.40 percent in 1993 and a record low of 6.70 percent in 2009.

Unemployment Rate in Afghanistan is expected to be 8.90 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Afghanistan Unemployment Rate is projected to trend around 8.80 percent in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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Afghanistan Labour	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Unemployment Rate	8.80	8.80	12.40	6.70	percent	[+]
Population	31.60	29.70	31.60	8.77	Million	[+]

In Afghanistan, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force. This page provides - Afghanistan Unemployment Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. Afghanistan Unemployment Rate - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on October of 2019.

	Actual	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Dates	Unit	Frequency
	8.80	8.80	12.40	6.70	1991 - 2018	percent	Yearly

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Country	Last		Previous	Range
South Africa	29.00	Jun/19	27.6	31.2 : 21.5	%
Spain	14.02	Jun/19	14.7	26.94 : 4.41	%
Turkey	13.90	Jul/19	13	14.8 : 7.3	%
Brazil	11.80	Aug/19	11.8	13.7 : 6.2	%
Argentina	10.60	Jun/19	10.1	20.8 : 5.9	%
Italy	9.50	Aug/19	9.8	13.1 : 5.8	%
France	8.50	Jun/19	8.7	10.7 : 7.2	%
Euro Area	7.40	Aug/19	7.5	12.1 : 7.3	%
India	6.00	Dec/18	5	8.3 : 3.53	%
Saudi Arabia	5.60	Jun/19	5.7	6.3 : 4.35	%
Canada	5.50	Sep/19	5.7	13.1 : 2.9	%
Australia	5.20	Sep/19	5.3	11.2 : 4	%
Indonesia	5.01	Mar/19	5.34	11.24 : 2	%
Russia	4.50	Sep/19	4.3	14.1 : 4.3	%
United Kingdom	3.90	Aug/19	3.8	12 : 3.4	%
Mexico	3.70	Aug/19	3.7	6.42 : 2.22	%
China	3.61	Jun/19	3.67	4.3 : 3.61	%
Netherlands	3.50	Sep/19	3.5	7.9 : 3.3	%
United States	3.50	Sep/19	3.7	10.8 : 2.5	%
South Korea	3.40	Sep/19	3.1	7.1 : 3	%
Germany	3.10	Aug/19	3.1	11.5 : 0.4	%
Japan	2.20	Aug/19	2.2	5.5 : 1	%
Singapore	2.20	Jun/19	2.2	6 : 1.4	%
Switzerland	2.10	Sep/19	2.1	5.7 : 1.5	%