Unemployment, female

Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment. Definitions of labor force and unemployment differ by country. Reported as: national estimate.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
207
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

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

  1. Produced by

    International Labour Organization

    Labour Force Statistics database (LFS), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: June 22, 2026

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Angola202510.60percent
Argentina20258.20percent
Australia20254.02percent
Austria20255.45percent
Belgium20255.60percent
Bhutan20254.53percent
Brazil20257.16percent
Bulgaria20253.40percent
Burkina Faso20258.10percent
Canada20256.49percent

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