Israel vs South Korea: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

Israel
3.0%
in 2025
South Korea
2.8%
in 2025
Israel rank
148th
South Korea rank
150th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

  • Israel
  • South Korea
2.557.51012.5196919972025

How they compare

Israel currently reports 3.0% against 2.8% in South Korea, a difference of 0.2%.

That makes Israel's figure about 1.1 times South Korea's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 51 shared years of data; in 1969 it was South Korea ahead.

Israel ranks 148th and South Korea ranks 150th of 185 countries.

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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

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.