Unemployment / Vanuatu
Vanuatu Unemployment
Vanuatu unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 5.07%.
COUNTRY: Vanuatu
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:45
GM ECONOMY RATING
Vanuatu · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
51 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
13.0 / 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 · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
5.07%
Previous
4.99%
Range avg.
5.02%
Rank
50
Countries by unemployment
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CountryVanuatu
IndicatorUnemployment
5.07%2025 · Rank 50
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Vanuatu recorded 5.07% for Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.08 percentage points, from 4.99% to 5.07%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (5.02%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 4.05% in 2020 and the high was 5.44% in 2019.
Comparison
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