Afghanistan
Unemployment rate
The unemployment rate measures the share of the labor force actively looking for work but not employed. It is a lagging but essential gauge of labor-market slack.
Unemployment Rate -- Afghanistan
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The reading right now
As of January 2025, Unemployment rate for Afghanistan stood at 13.4%. That is down 0.34 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 13.4%, ranging from a low of 12% in January 2021 to a high of 14.1% in January 2022. The current reading sits 1.1 percentage points above its trailing ten-year mean of 12.3%.
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