Employment Rate / Vanuatu
Vanuatu Employment Rate
Vanuatu employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 55.16%.
COUNTRY: Vanuatu
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-07 05:09:26
GM ECONOMY RATING
Vanuatu · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
CCC
44 / 100
High vulnerability
Fiscal stability
7.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
17.0 / 20
External stability
1.2 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
7.8 / 15
Future capacity
5.8 / 10
Demographic capacity
1.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 86% of weighted inputs available.
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Vanuatu · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
Latest
55.16%
Previous
55.43%
Range avg.
55.84%
Rank
66
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CountryVanuatu
IndicatorEmployment Rate
55.16%2025 · Rank 66
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Vanuatu recorded 55.16% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.27 percentage points, from 55.43% to 55.16%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (55.84%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 55.16% in 2025 and the high was 57.41% in 2016.
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