Employment Rate / Iraq
Iraq Employment Rate
Iraq employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 35.10%.
COUNTRY: Iraq
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-07 05:09:26
GM ECONOMY RATING
Iraq · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
48 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
7.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
8.9 / 20
External stability
6.0 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
13.0 / 15
Future capacity
8.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
0.4 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 86% of weighted inputs available.
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Iraq · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
Latest
35.10%
Previous
35.20%
Range avg.
35.33%
Rank
99
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CountryIraq
IndicatorEmployment Rate
35.10%2025 · Rank 99
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Iraq recorded 35.10% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.10 percentage points, from 35.20% to 35.10%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (35.33%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 33.25% in 2021 and the high was 38.48% in 2016.
Comparison
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