Unemployment / Laos
Laos Unemployment
Laos unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 1.19%.
COUNTRY: Laos
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:45
GM ECONOMY RATING
Laos · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
53 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
3.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
16.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
10.0 / 15
Future capacity
8.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
3.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 86% of weighted inputs available.
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Laos · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
1.19%
Previous
1.17%
Range avg.
2.05%
Rank
103
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CountryLaos
IndicatorUnemployment
1.19%2025 · Rank 103
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Laos recorded 1.19% for Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.01 percentage points, from 1.17% to 1.19%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (2.05%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 1.17% in 2024 and the high was 3.27% in 2017.
Comparison
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