Unemployment / Brunei
Brunei Unemployment
Brunei unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 5.28%.
COUNTRY: Brunei
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:45
GM ECONOMY RATING
Brunei · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
74 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
n/a
Macroeconomic stability
15.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
13.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 62% of weighted inputs available.
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Brunei · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
5.28%
Previous
5.18%
Range avg.
6.64%
Rank
46
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CountryBrunei
IndicatorUnemployment
5.28%2025 · Rank 46
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Brunei recorded 5.28% for Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.10 percentage points, from 5.18% to 5.28%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (6.64%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 4.91% in 2021 and the high was 9.32% in 2017.
Comparison
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