Iran vs Venezuela: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

Iran

7.6%

in 2024

Venezuela

7.5%

in 2020

Iran rank

56th

Venezuela rank

58th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

Iran
Venezuela

How they compare

Iran currently reports 7.6% against 7.5% in Venezuela, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 13 shared years of data; in 1986 it was Iran ahead.

Iran ranks 56th and Venezuela ranks 58th of 185 countries.

Individual pages

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Iran
Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Venezuela
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.