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Senegal — Unemployment
Unemployment Rate for Senegal, 1991–2025.
Latest value · 2025
2.73%
Unemployment Rate · % of total labor force · -4.4% since 1991
Unemployment for Senegal was 2.73% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 35 years, from 1991 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 6.76% in 2015. The lowest was 2.64% in 2000 (about 1.0× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -0.13% per year.
Senegal ranks 158 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 84%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 5.45%, so Senegal sits below it. It peaked in 2015 and has fallen 60% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 60%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
2.73%
First (1991)
2.86%
Change
-4.4%
Highest
6.76%
in 2015
Lowest
2.64%
in 2000
Average
3.23%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-0.13%
Years of data
35
Recent years
| Year | % of total labor force |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.74% |
| 2024 | 2.79% |
| 2023 | 2.78% |
| 2022 | 2.84% |
| 2021 | 3.44% |
| 2020 | 3.43% |
| 2019 | 2.86% |
| 2018 | 3.45% |
| 2017 | 4.08% |
| 2016 | 4.46% |
| 2015 | 6.76% |
| 2014 | 5.85% |
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.