Afghanistan Employment Rate
Afghanistan employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 32.46%.
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Afghanistan · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Afghanistan recorded 32.46% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.05 percentage points, from 32.41% to 32.46%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (36.59%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 32.32% in 2023 and the high was 42.46% in 2016.