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Turkiye — Unemployment
Unemployment Rate for Turkiye, 1991–2025.
Latest value · 2025
8.52%
Unemployment Rate · % of total labor force · +3.8% since 1991
Unemployment for Turkiye was 8.52% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 35 years, from 1991 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 14.03% in 2009. The lowest was 6.50% in 2000 (about 1.3× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.11% per year.
Turkiye ranks 50 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 27%. The median for Europe & Central Asia is 5.58%, so Turkiye sits above it. It peaked in 2009 and has fallen 39% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 17%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
8.52%
First (1991)
8.21%
Change
+3.8%
Highest
14.03%
in 2009
Lowest
6.50%
in 2000
Average
9.78%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.11%
Years of data
35
Recent years
| Year | % of total labor force |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 8.52% |
| 2024 | 8.8% |
| 2023 | 9.39% |
| 2022 | 10.47% |
| 2021 | 11.97% |
| 2020 | 13.15% |
| 2019 | 13.73% |
| 2018 | 10.96% |
| 2017 | 10.92% |
| 2016 | 10.9% |
| 2015 | 10.3% |
| 2014 | 9.9% |
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.