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Unemployment Rate, 1996

1996, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Unemployment Rate, 1996 covers 187 countries. North Macedonia is highest, at 38.800; Pakistan is lowest, at 0.600. The middle country reads 7.414. Against 1995, 184 values changed (90 up, 94 down), the same countries are covered.

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Unemployment Rate · Data for 1996

HighestNorth Macedonia

38.800

LowestPakistan

0.600

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, 1996, 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, 1996: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe38.800
2MontenegroMNESouthern Europe30.173
3AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa28.268
4DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa27.172
5BelarusBLREastern Europe24.400
6NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa22.844
7South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa22.500
8SpainESPSouthern Europe22.142
9EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa22.074
10Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe21.682
11BotswanaBWASouthern Africa21.593
12LatviaLVANorthern Europe20.700
13Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean20.343
14Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa20.049
15SomaliaSOMEastern Africa19.463
16LibyaLBYNorthern Africa19.212
17New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia18.640
18GabonGABMiddle Africa17.325
19ArgentinaARGSouth America17.110
20LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe16.400
21Saint LuciaLCACaribbean16.330
22Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean16.250
23AngolaAGOMiddle Africa16.177
24TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa16.061
25LesothoLSOSouthern Africa15.709

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1North Macedonia38.800
  2. 2Montenegro30.173
  3. 3Algeria28.268
  4. 4Djibouti27.172
  5. 5Belarus24.400

Lowest

  1. 187Pakistan0.600
  2. 185Chadshared0.700
  3. 185Kuwaitshared0.700
  4. 184Myanmar0.753
  5. 183Qatar0.870

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 7.414. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 184values changed, of 187 in both
  • 90 · 94rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

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 1996.

  • 186 distinct values among 187

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 0.700. 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) (1996). Unemployment Rate, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/unemployment-rate/1996

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07Questions

Unemployment Rate, 1996: questions and answers

Which country has the highest unemployment rate in Unemployment Rate, 1996?

North Macedonia, at 38.800, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Unemployment Rate, 1996 describe?

1996.

How many countries does Unemployment Rate, 1996 cover?

187.

Where can I download Unemployment Rate, 1996?

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, 1996 the newest?

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

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