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Iraq: Unemployment, total (% of labor force)

15.48percent · 2025+42.5% since 2015

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

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202515.485
202415.293
202315.239
202215.41
202116.173
202015.766
201914.096
201813.458
201713.02
201610.82
201510.865
201410.59
20139.222
20127.965
20118.193
20108.267
20098.415
20088.466
20078.646
20068.411
20058.57
20048.715
20038.959
20028.619
20018.249
20008.038
19997.979
19988.064
19978.269
19968.516
19958.431
19948.221
19938.36
19928.346
19918.639

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 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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