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

Egypt

5.9%

in 2024

Portugal

6.0%

in 2025

Egypt rank

78th

Portugal rank

77th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

Egypt
Portugal

How they compare

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

The two have swapped places 5 times across 46 shared years of data; in 1974 it was Egypt ahead.

Egypt ranks 78th and Portugal ranks 77th of 185 countries.

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