Botswana vs Eswatini: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

Botswana

24.4%

in 2024

Eswatini

34.3%

in 2023

Botswana rank

4th

Eswatini rank

1st

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

Botswana
Eswatini

How they compare

Eswatini currently reports 34.3% against 24.4% in Botswana, a difference of 9.8%.

That makes Eswatini's figure about 1.4 times Botswana's.

Botswana ranks 4th and Eswatini ranks 1st of 185 countries.

Individual pages

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Botswana
Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Eswatini
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.