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

Ghana

4.0%

in 2024

Netherlands

3.9%

in 2025

Ghana rank

124th

Netherlands rank

126th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

Ghana
Netherlands

How they compare

Ghana currently reports 4.0% against 3.9% in Netherlands, a difference of 0.1%.

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

Ghana ranks 124th and Netherlands ranks 126th of 185 countries.

Individual pages

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Ghana
Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Netherlands
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.