Youth Unemployment / Myanmar
Myanmar Youth Unemployment
Myanmar youth unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 9.81%.
COUNTRY: Myanmar
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-07 05:07:43
GM ECONOMY RATING
Myanmar · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
CCC
38 / 100
High vulnerability
Fiscal stability
5.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
9.0 / 20
External stability
6.0 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
8.8 / 15
Future capacity
n/a
Demographic capacity
n/a
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 71% of weighted inputs available.
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Myanmar · youth unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
9.81%
Previous
9.97%
Range avg.
6.71%
Rank
70
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CountryMyanmar
IndicatorYouth Unemployment
9.81%2025 · Rank 70
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Myanmar recorded 9.81% for Youth Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.16 percentage points, from 9.97% to 9.81%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (6.71%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 1.31% in 2019 and the high was 12.82% in 2021.
Comparison
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