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Botswana: Unemployment, total (% of labor force)

24.48percent · 2025+29.4% since 2015

Share of the labor force without work. Annual figures for Botswana from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202524.477
202423.81
202323.381
202223.615
202123.106
202021.017
201920.094
201819.665
201719.671
201619.328
201518.915
201418.484
201318.167
201217.916
201118.049
201017.86
200916.169
200816.293
200716.976
200617.782
200519.852
200421.755
200323.8
200221.277
200118.54
200015.88
199918.224
199820.86
199721.031
199621.593
199521.394
199421.2
199318.761
199216.33
199113.82

Source

Published by World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Unemployment, total (% of labor force). Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-unemployment (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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