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

Algeria

11.7%

in 2017

Zimbabwe

12.1%

in 2024

Algeria rank

19th

Zimbabwe rank

17th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

Algeria
Zimbabwe

How they compare

Zimbabwe currently reports 12.1% against 11.7% in Algeria, a difference of 0.4%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 6 shared years of data; in 1994 it was Algeria ahead.

Algeria ranks 19th and Zimbabwe ranks 17th of 185 countries.

Individual pages

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Algeria
Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Zimbabwe
Full country ranking

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: 07 August 2026

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.