Youth Unemployment / Ethiopia
Ethiopia Youth Unemployment
Ethiopia youth unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 5.35%.
COUNTRY: Ethiopia
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-07 05:07:43
GM ECONOMY RATING
Ethiopia · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
61 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
11.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
15.0 / 20
External stability
11.0 / 15
Financial robustness
8.0 / 15
Structural stability
8.8 / 15
Future capacity
7.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
3.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Ethiopia · youth unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
5.35%
Previous
5.45%
Range avg.
5.19%
Rank
97
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CountryEthiopia
IndicatorYouth Unemployment
5.35%2025 · Rank 97
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Ethiopia recorded 5.35% for Youth Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.10 percentage points, from 5.45% to 5.35%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (5.19%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 4.03% in 2016 and the high was 6.36% in 2020.
Comparison
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