Unemployment Rate — World Ranking

The share of the labour force that is actively looking for work but has not found it yet.

Malaysia sits at #115 of 183 countries with a value of 3.9% — the full leaderboard is in the table below.

The top 50 — Unemployment Rate

Sorted with the highest value first (a lower value counts as better), data year 2023. Flags: flagcdn; every country name links to its full profile.

#	Country	Value
1	Eswatini	34.6%
2	South Africa	32.1%
3	Djibouti	26.1%
4	Botswana	23.4%
5	Gabon	20.2%
6	Republic of the Congo	19.9%
7	Namibia	19.2%
8	Somalia	19%
9	Libya	18.7%
10	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	18.3%
11	Yemen	16.9%
12	Jordan	16.6%
13	Lesotho	16.3%
14	Iraq	15.2%
15	Tunisia	15.1%
16	Haiti	14.5%
17	Angola	14.1%
18	Afghanistan	14%
19	Syria	13.3%
20	North Macedonia	13.2%
21	Montenegro	13.1%
22	Armenia	12.4%
23	South Sudan	12.4%
24	Rwanda	12.4%
25	Spain	12.2%
26	Saint Lucia	12.1%
27	Guyana	11.9%
28	Cape Verde	11.9%
29	Algeria	11.6%
30	French Polynesia	11.6%
31	Georgia	11.5%
32	United States Virgin Islands	11.4%
33	Greece	11%
34	Lebanon	11%
35	New Caledonia	10.9%
36	Albania	10.7%
37	Bosnia and Herzegovina	10.7%
38	Nepal	10.4%
39	Mauritania	10.4%
40	Colombia	9.6%
41	Türkiye	9.4%
42	Zimbabwe	9.3%
43	São Tomé and Príncipe	9%
44	Chile	9%
45	Morocco	8.9%
46	Bahamas	8.6%
47	Uruguay	8.4%
48	Costa Rica	8.3%
49	Belize	8.3%
50	Serbia	8.3%

Global distribution

Source: World Bank Open Data (indicator SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS, year 2023) — public data with no API key, licensed CC BY 4.0. The full profile of every country: Country Complex · live natural events: Disaster Complex.