Algeria vs Yemen: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

Algeria
11.7%
in 2017
Yemen
13.5%
in 2014
Algeria rank
19th
Yemen rank
16th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

  • Algeria
  • Yemen
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How they compare

Yemen currently reports 13.5% against 11.7% in Algeria, a difference of 1.8%.

That makes Yemen's figure about 1.2 times Algeria's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 11 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Yemen ahead.

Algeria ranks 19th and Yemen ranks 16th of 185 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates
Unit
%
Source
Labour Force Statistics, via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
185 places, 5,169 data points, 1960–2025
Last refreshed

Share of the labor force without work, but actively looking for a job and available to start soon. Figures refer to national estimates and may not be fully comparable across countries.