Barbados vs Egypt: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

Barbados

6.0%

in 2024

Egypt

5.9%

in 2024

Barbados rank

76th

Egypt rank

78th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

Barbados
Egypt

How they compare

Barbados currently reports 6.0% against 5.9% in Egypt, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 36 shared years of data; in 1977 it was Barbados ahead.

Barbados ranks 76th and Egypt ranks 78th of 185 countries.

Individual pages

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Barbados
Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Egypt
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.