Unemployment / Bahrain
Bahrain Unemployment
Bahrain unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 1.10%.
COUNTRY: Bahrain
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:45
GM ECONOMY RATING
Bahrain · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
68 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
5.1 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
18.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
11.0 / 15
Structural stability
14.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
5.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Bahrain · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
1.10%
Previous
1.08%
Range avg.
1.26%
Rank
104
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CountryBahrain
IndicatorUnemployment
1.10%2025 · Rank 104
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Bahrain recorded 1.10% for Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.02 percentage points, from 1.08% to 1.10%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (1.26%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 1.05% in 2023 and the high was 1.77% in 2020.
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