Ranking
Unemployment in African countries in 2025
Share of the labour force without a job. The IMF covers few African countries.
Unemployment, 2025: Sudan (61.2 %), South Africa (32.4 %), Tunisia (15.2 %). The 8 African countries ranked, from IMF data.
Filters
No data: Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, DR Congo, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
IMF, World Economic Outlook · JSON