Employment Rate / Bhutan
Bhutan Employment Rate
Bhutan employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 62.73%.
COUNTRY: Bhutan
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-07 05:09:26
GM ECONOMY RATING
Bhutan · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
55 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
7.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
18.0 / 20
External stability
1.2 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
12.0 / 15
Future capacity
9.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 86% of weighted inputs available.
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Bhutan · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
Latest
62.73%
Previous
62.77%
Range avg.
62.52%
Rank
30
Countries by employment rate
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62.73%2025 · Rank 30
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Bhutan recorded 62.73% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.04 percentage points, from 62.77% to 62.73%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (62.52%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 59.34% in 2022 and the high was 65.78% in 2021.
Comparison
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