Unemployment / Syria
Syria Unemployment
Syria unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 13.57%.
COUNTRY: Syria
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:45
GM ECONOMY RATING
Syria · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
CCC
34 / 100
High vulnerability
Fiscal stability
n/a
Macroeconomic stability
5.0 / 20
External stability
4.0 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
6.8 / 15
Future capacity
6.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
0.4 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 62% of weighted inputs available.
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Syria · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
13.57%
Previous
13.36%
Range avg.
13.78%
Rank
7
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CountrySyria
IndicatorUnemployment
13.57%2025 · Rank 7
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Syria recorded 13.57% for Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.21 percentage points, from 13.36% to 13.57%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (13.78%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 13.25% in 2022 and the high was 15.18% in 2020.
Comparison
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