Australia vs Ghana: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

Australia
4.2%
in 2025
Ghana
4.0%
in 2024
Australia rank
121st
Ghana rank
124th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

  • Australia
  • Ghana
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How they compare

Australia currently reports 4.2% against 4.0% in Ghana, a difference of 0.2%.

That makes Australia's figure about 1.1 times Ghana's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 15 shared years of data; in 1989 it was Australia ahead.

Australia ranks 121st and Ghana ranks 124th 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.