United Arab Emirates Unemployment
United Arab Emirates unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 2.17%.
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United Arab Emirates · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
United Arab Emirates recorded 2.17% for Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.01 percentage points, from 2.16% to 2.17%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (2.54%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 1.64% in 2016 and the high was 4.29% in 2020.