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Unemployment Rate, 2005

2005, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Unemployment Rate, 2005 covers 187 countries. North Macedonia is highest, at 37.320; Pakistan is lowest, at 0.583. The middle country reads 7.092. Against 2004, 184 values changed (70 up, 114 down), the same countries are covered.

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Unemployment Rate · Data for 2005

HighestNorth Macedonia

37.320

LowestPakistan

0.583

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, 2005, 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, 2005: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe37.320
2MontenegroMNESouthern Europe30.310
3Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe30.218
4EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa27.221
5DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa26.448
6South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa22.472
7NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa22.108
8SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe20.850
9PalestinePSEWestern Asia20.016
10BotswanaBWASouthern Africa19.852
11Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa19.796
12Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean19.461
13Saint LuciaLCACaribbean18.700
14SomaliaSOMEastern Africa18.671
15LibyaLBYNorthern Africa18.660
16PolandPOLEastern Europe17.592
17GabonGABMiddle Africa16.910
18São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa16.470
19AngolaAGOMiddle Africa16.295
20SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe16.276
21LesothoLSOSouthern Africa16.031
22AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe15.966
23ZambiaZMBEastern Africa15.900
24New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia15.778
25SudanSDNNorthern Africa15.545

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1North Macedonia37.320
  2. 2Montenegro30.310
  3. 3Bosnia and Herzegovina30.218
  4. 4Eswatini27.221
  5. 5Djibouti26.448

Lowest

  1. 187Pakistan0.583
  2. 186Chad0.663
  3. 185Myanmar0.672
  4. 184Benin0.859
  5. 183Qatar0.870

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 7.092. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 184values changed, of 187 in both
  • 70 · 114rose · 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 2005.

  • 185 distinct values among 187

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 3.100. 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) (2005). Unemployment Rate, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/unemployment-rate/2005

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07Questions

Unemployment Rate, 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest unemployment rate in Unemployment Rate, 2005?

North Macedonia, at 37.320, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Unemployment Rate, 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does Unemployment Rate, 2005 cover?

187.

Where can I download Unemployment Rate, 2005?

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, 2005 the newest?

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

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