Afghanistan Unemployment
Afghanistan unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 13.35%.
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Afghanistan · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
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Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Afghanistan recorded 13.35% for Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.34 percentage points, from 13.69% to 13.35%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (12.25%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 10.12% in 2016 and the high was 14.10% in 2022.