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Unemployment Rate, 2009

2009, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Unemployment Rate, 2009 covers 187 countries. North Macedonia is highest, at 32.351; Qatar is lowest, at 0.310. The middle country reads 6.674. Against 2008, 184 values changed (142 up, 42 down), the same countries are covered.

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Unemployment Rate · Data for 2009

HighestNorth Macedonia

32.351

LowestQatar

0.310

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, 2009, 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, 2009: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe32.351
2EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa27.488
3DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa26.325
4Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe24.068
5South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa23.523
6NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa22.271
7GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia20.710
8PalestinePSEWestern Asia20.452
9Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa19.844
10GabonGABMiddle Africa19.760
11Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean19.365
12ArmeniaARMWestern Asia19.295
13LibyaLBYNorthern Africa19.290
14MontenegroMNESouthern Europe19.090
15SomaliaSOMEastern Africa18.724
16SpainESPSouthern Europe17.857
17LatviaLVANorthern Europe17.515
18AngolaAGOMiddle Africa16.383
19BotswanaBWASouthern Africa16.169
20SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe16.116
21LesothoLSOSouthern Africa16.115
22HaitiHTICaribbean15.398
23Saint LuciaLCACaribbean15.370
24São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa15.136
25Puerto RicoPRICaribbean15.000

02In 2009

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1North Macedonia32.351
  2. 2Eswatini27.488
  3. 3Djibouti26.325
  4. 4Bosnia and Herzegovina24.068
  5. 5South Africa23.523

Lowest

  1. 187Qatar0.310
  2. 186Pakistan0.535
  3. 185Cambodia0.579
  4. 184Myanmar0.712
  5. 183Laos0.835

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 6.674. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

What changed between 2008 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 184values changed, of 187 in both
  • 142 · 42rose · 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 2009.

  • 185 distinct values among 187

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 5.860. 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) (2009). Unemployment Rate, 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/unemployment-rate/2009

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07Questions

Unemployment Rate, 2009: questions and answers

Which country has the highest unemployment rate in Unemployment Rate, 2009?

North Macedonia, at 32.351, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Unemployment Rate, 2009 describe?

2009.

How many countries does Unemployment Rate, 2009 cover?

187.

Where can I download Unemployment Rate, 2009?

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, 2009 the newest?

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

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