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Unemployment rate (IMF)

Unemployment as a percentage of the total labour force.

Coverage
116 of 238 countries
Latest data
2026
Series
116
Unit
percent
Licence
IMF Terms and Conditions
Retrieved
2026-11-05
Indicator
imf-unemployment
Interva ID
imf-unemployment

Recency

current

data to 2026; catalog to 2025

Provenance

1 step

as the publisher declares it

Versions

2

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.

Recency

100%

Latest observation is 2026; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 0 year(s) behind (current).

Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.

Temporal completeness

100%

0 of 116 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% of its years.

Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.

Geographic coverage

Measured

Covers 116 of the 238 countries in the catalog.

Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.

History depth

Measured

The median series has 41 observations; the earliest begins in 1980.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

386 observation(s) restated by the publisher across 1 vintage(s) Interva has recorded.

Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.

Schema conformity

Not assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.

2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-07.

By country

Unemployment rate (IMF) for each of the 116 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Albania20318.70percent
Andorra20312percent
Argentina20316.50percent
Armenia203112.10percent
Aruba20314.30percent
Australia20314.60percent
Austria20315.30percent
Azerbaijan20315percent
Bahamas20319percent
Barbados20317.30percent

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as International Monetary Fund declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    International Monetary Fund

    WEO — World Economic Outlook (October 2026)

    declared by imf in dataset/source

Versions

A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.

  • CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded
  • 2026-11-05386 observation(s) restatedchecksum not recorded

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Citation

Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-05. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.

International Monetary Fund (2026). Unemployment rate (IMF). Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/imf-unemployment (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-imf-unemployment,
  title        = {Unemployment rate (IMF)},
  author       = {International Monetary Fund},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/imf-unemployment}},
  note         = {Interva dataset imf-unemployment; catalog snapshot 2026-11-05},
  urldate      = {2026-11-07}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

API access

Every fact on this page is available from the API.

curl https://interva-api.nq5kq4f69b5zj.eu-west-3.cs.amazonlightsail.com/datasets/imf-unemployment
curl -o imf-unemployment.csv https://interva-api.nq5kq4f69b5zj.eu-west-3.cs.amazonlightsail.com/datasets/imf-unemployment/download
curl "https://interva-api.nq5kq4f69b5zj.eu-west-3.cs.amazonlightsail.com/datasets/imf-unemployment/citation?accessed=YYYY-MM-DD"
curl https://interva-api.nq5kq4f69b5zj.eu-west-3.cs.amazonlightsail.com/datasets/imf-unemployment/quality

Full schema: https://interva-api.nq5kq4f69b5zj.eu-west-3.cs.amazonlightsail.com/docs

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