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Unemployment Rate, 2004

2004, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Unemployment Rate, 2004 covers 187 countries. North Macedonia is highest, at 37.161; Pakistan is lowest, at 0.598. The middle country reads 6.800. Against 2003, 186 values changed (74 up, 112 down), the same countries are covered.

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Unemployment Rate · Data for 2004

HighestNorth Macedonia

37.161

LowestPakistan

0.598

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, 2004, 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, 2004: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe37.161
2MontenegroMNESouthern Europe30.342
3Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe29.279
4EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa26.716
5DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa26.441
6PalestinePSEWestern Asia23.215
7South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa22.567
8NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa22.090
9BotswanaBWASouthern Africa21.755
10Saint LuciaLCACaribbean20.970
11Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa19.896
12Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean19.545
13LibyaLBYNorthern Africa18.938
14PolandPOLEastern Europe18.822
15SomaliaSOMEastern Africa18.653
16SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe18.500
17SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe18.206
18AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa17.650
19GabonGABMiddle Africa17.108
20AngolaAGOMiddle Africa16.313
21New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia16.310
22AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe16.306
23LesothoLSOSouthern Africa16.154
24São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa16.120
25SudanSDNNorthern Africa15.538

02In 2004

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1North Macedonia37.161
  2. 2Montenegro30.342
  3. 3Bosnia and Herzegovina29.279
  4. 4Eswatini26.716
  5. 5Djibouti26.441

Lowest

  1. 187Pakistan0.598
  2. 186Chad0.672
  3. 185Myanmar0.677
  4. 184Benin0.790
  5. 183Qatar0.870

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 6.800. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032003 → 2004

Since 2003

What changed between 2003 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 186values changed, of 187 in both
  • 74 · 112rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

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 2004.

  • 185 distinct values among 187

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 4.316. 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) (2004). Unemployment Rate, 2004 [data set], describing 2004. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/unemployment-rate/2004

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07Questions

Unemployment Rate, 2004: questions and answers

Which country has the highest unemployment rate in Unemployment Rate, 2004?

North Macedonia, at 37.161, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Unemployment Rate, 2004 describe?

2004.

How many countries does Unemployment Rate, 2004 cover?

187.

Where can I download Unemployment Rate, 2004?

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, 2004 the newest?

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

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