Unemployment / Belgium
Belgium Unemployment
Belgium unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 5.91%.
COUNTRY: Belgium
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:45
GM ECONOMY RATING
Belgium · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
51 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
7.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
15.0 / 20
External stability
4.0 / 15
Financial robustness
4.0 / 15
Structural stability
14.0 / 15
Future capacity
8.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Belgium · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
5.91%
Previous
5.70%
Range avg.
6.07%
Rank
38
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CountryBelgium
IndicatorUnemployment
5.91%2025 · Rank 38
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Belgium recorded 5.91% for Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.21 percentage points, from 5.70% to 5.91%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (6.07%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 5.36% in 2019 and the high was 7.83% in 2016.
Comparison
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