Maldives Youth Unemployment
Maldives youth unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 15.69%.
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Maldives · youth unemployment data as percent of GDP.
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Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Maldives recorded 15.69% for Youth Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.89 percentage points, from 14.81% to 15.69%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (14.76%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 13.50% in 2019 and the high was 16.15% in 2020.