Unemployment / North Korea
North Korea Unemployment
North Korea unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 3.55%.
COUNTRY: North Korea
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:45
GM ECONOMY RATING
North Korea · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
CCC
40 / 100
High vulnerability
Fiscal stability
n/a
Macroeconomic stability
7.1 / 20
External stability
n/a
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
n/a
Future capacity
n/a
Demographic capacity
3.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 24% of weighted inputs available.
Time range:
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North Korea · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
3.55%
Previous
3.54%
Range avg.
3.52%
Rank
73
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CountryNorth Korea
IndicatorUnemployment
3.55%2025 · Rank 73
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
North Korea recorded 3.55% for Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.01 percentage points, from 3.54% to 3.55%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (3.52%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 3.41% in 2018 and the high was 3.69% in 2021.
Comparison
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