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Czechia — Unemployment
Unemployment Rate for Czechia, 1991–2025.
Latest value · 2025
2.83%
Unemployment Rate · % of total labor force · +24.4% since 1991
Unemployment for Czechia was 2.83% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 35 years, from 1991 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 8.76% in 2000. The lowest was 2.02% in 2019 (about 1.4× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.65% per year.
Czechia ranks 154 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 82%. The median for Europe & Central Asia is 5.58%, so Czechia sits below it. It peaked in 2000 and has fallen 68% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 44%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
2.83%
First (1991)
2.27%
Change
+24.4%
Highest
8.76%
in 2000
Lowest
2.02%
in 2019
Average
5.11%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.65%
Years of data
35
Recent years
| Year | % of total labor force |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.83% |
| 2024 | 2.6% |
| 2023 | 2.58% |
| 2022 | 2.22% |
| 2021 | 2.8% |
| 2020 | 2.55% |
| 2019 | 2.02% |
| 2018 | 2.25% |
| 2017 | 2.89% |
| 2016 | 3.95% |
| 2015 | 5.05% |
| 2014 | 6.11% |
Reading this correctly. Share of the labor force without work but available for and seeking employment. National definitions differ, so cross-country comparison needs care. Figures are in % of total labor force. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS — Unemployment Rate. Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.