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Unemployment Rate, 1994

1994, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Unemployment Rate, 1994 covers 187 countries. Montenegro is highest, at 30.226; Pakistan is lowest, at 0.601. The middle country reads 7.300. Against 1993, 183 values changed (99 up, 84 down), the same countries are covered.

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Unemployment Rate · Data for 1994

HighestMontenegro

30.226

LowestPakistan

0.601

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Unemployment Rate, 1994, as published. ILO ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 187 countries · select a heading to sort

Unemployment Rate, 1994: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1MontenegroMNESouthern Europe30.226
2North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe30.000
3AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa27.740
4DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa27.118
5SpainESPSouthern Europe24.209
6South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa23.067
7BarbadosBRBCaribbean22.980
8EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa21.726
9BotswanaBWASouthern Africa21.200
10AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe20.835
11Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa20.269
12Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe20.170
13Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean19.974
14SomaliaSOMEastern Africa19.971
15NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa19.400
16LibyaLBYNorthern Africa19.328
17New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia18.878
18LatviaLVANorthern Europe18.700
19ZambiaZMBEastern Africa18.689
20Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean18.440
21GabonGABMiddle Africa17.804
22AngolaAGOMiddle Africa17.444
23Saint LuciaLCACaribbean17.000
24JordanJORWestern Asia16.894
25FinlandFINNorthern Europe16.426

02In 1994

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Montenegro30.226
  2. 2North Macedonia30.000
  3. 3Algeria27.740
  4. 4Djibouti27.118
  5. 5Spain24.209

Lowest

  1. 187Pakistan0.601
  2. 186Kuwait0.700
  3. 185Chad0.709
  4. 184Myanmar0.739
  5. 183Maldives0.793

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 7.300. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031993 → 1994

Since 1993

What changed between 1993 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 183values changed, of 187 in both
  • 99 · 84rose · fell
  • 4unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1994.

  • 185 distinct values among 187

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 12.800. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    ILO publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 187 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

International Labour Organization (ILO) (1994). Unemployment Rate, 1994 [data set], describing 1994. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/unemployment-rate/1994

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07Questions

Unemployment Rate, 1994: questions and answers

Which country has the highest unemployment rate in Unemployment Rate, 1994?

Montenegro, at 30.226, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Unemployment Rate, 1994 describe?

1994.

How many countries does Unemployment Rate, 1994 cover?

187.

Where can I download Unemployment Rate, 1994?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Unemployment Rate, 1994 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Unemployment Rate, 2025.

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