Unemployment / Bangladesh
Bangladesh Unemployment
Bangladesh unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 3.78%.
COUNTRY: Bangladesh
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:45
GM ECONOMY RATING
Bangladesh · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
68 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
10.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
14.0 / 20
External stability
11.0 / 15
Financial robustness
12.0 / 15
Structural stability
12.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Bangladesh · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
3.78%
Previous
3.64%
Range avg.
4.40%
Rank
69
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CountryBangladesh
IndicatorUnemployment
3.78%2025 · Rank 69
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Bangladesh recorded 3.78% for Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.14 percentage points, from 3.64% to 3.78%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (4.40%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 3.35% in 2023 and the high was 5.54% in 2020.
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