Key data points
Last release
—
Observation period
Q3 2024
Next release
—
Forecast
—
Highest
13.40 % on Mar 31, 2014
Lowest
6.50 % on Jun 30, 2024
About Egypt unemployment rate
In Egypt, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.
Related indicators
Frequently Asked Questions
To calculate Egypt unemployment rate you need to take the number of the country residents without a job and looking for work divided by the total number of residents in the labor force.
The lowest ever Egypt unemployment rate is 6.50%.
The highest figure Egypt unemployment rate has ever reached is 13.40%.
Last quarter Egypt unemployment rate was 6.70%, and the quarter before that it amounted to 6.50%.