Employment Rate / Egypt
Egypt Employment Rate
Egypt employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 41.55%.
COUNTRY: Egypt
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-07 05:09:26
GM ECONOMY RATING
Egypt · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
53 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
7.1 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
14.0 / 20
External stability
7.0 / 15
Financial robustness
13.0 / 15
Structural stability
10.0 / 15
Future capacity
2.8 / 10
Demographic capacity
1.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Egypt · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
Latest
41.55%
Previous
41.56%
Range avg.
40.13%
Rank
89
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CountryEgypt
IndicatorEmployment Rate
41.55%2025 · Rank 89
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Egypt recorded 41.55% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.01 percentage points, from 41.56% to 41.55%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (40.13%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 38.30% in 2020 and the high was 41.65% in 2023.
Comparison
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