Unemployment / Egypt
Egypt Unemployment
Egypt unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 6.78%.
COUNTRY: Egypt
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:45
GM ECONOMY RATING
Egypt · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
51 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
7.1 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
12.0 / 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 · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
6.78%
Previous
6.82%
Range avg.
8.42%
Rank
30
Countries by unemployment
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CountryEgypt
IndicatorUnemployment
6.78%2025 · Rank 30
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Egypt recorded 6.78% for Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.04 percentage points, from 6.82% to 6.78%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (8.42%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 6.55% in 2022 and the high was 12.45% in 2016.
Comparison
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