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Liberia — Unemployment
Unemployment Rate for Liberia, 1991–2025.
Latest value · 2025
2.88%
Unemployment Rate · % of total labor force · +5.4% since 1991
Unemployment for Liberia was 2.88% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 35 years, from 1991 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 4.10% in 2020. The lowest was 2.01% in 1999 (about 1.4× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.16% per year.
Liberia ranks 152 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 81%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 5.45%, so Liberia sits below it. It peaked in 2020 and has fallen 30% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 13%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
2.88%
First (1991)
2.73%
Change
+5.4%
Highest
4.10%
in 2020
Lowest
2.01%
in 1999
Average
2.57%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.16%
Years of data
35
Recent years
| Year | % of total labor force |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.88% |
| 2024 | 2.91% |
| 2023 | 2.91% |
| 2022 | 2.96% |
| 2021 | 3.84% |
| 2020 | 4.1% |
| 2019 | 3.07% |
| 2018 | 3.06% |
| 2017 | 3.07% |
| 2016 | 3.08% |
| 2015 | 2.56% |
| 2014 | 2.08% |
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.