Unemployment / Maldives
Maldives Unemployment
Maldives unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 4.51%.
COUNTRY: Maldives
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:45
GM ECONOMY RATING
Maldives · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
48 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
5.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
17.0 / 20
External stability
1.2 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
11.0 / 15
Future capacity
7.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
n/a
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 81% of weighted inputs available.
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Maldives · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
4.51%
Previous
4.28%
Range avg.
4.82%
Rank
62
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CountryMaldives
IndicatorUnemployment
4.51%2025 · Rank 62
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Maldives recorded 4.51% for Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.24 percentage points, from 4.28% to 4.51%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (4.82%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 4.02% in 2023 and the high was 5.77% in 2016.
Comparison
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