Unemployment / Nepal
Nepal Unemployment
Nepal unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 10.47%.
COUNTRY: Nepal
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:45
GM ECONOMY RATING
Nepal · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
56 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
5.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
16.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
9.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 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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Nepal · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
10.47%
Previous
10.50%
Range avg.
10.98%
Rank
13
Countries by unemployment
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CountryNepal
IndicatorUnemployment
10.47%2025 · Rank 13
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Nepal recorded 10.47% for Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.04 percentage points, from 10.50% to 10.47%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (10.98%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 10.44% in 2023 and the high was 13.04% in 2020.
Comparison
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