Japan vs Seychelles: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

Japan

2.5%

in 2025

Seychelles

2.6%

in 2024

Japan rank

159th

Seychelles rank

156th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

Japan
Seychelles

How they compare

Seychelles currently reports 2.6% against 2.5% in Japan, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 13 shared years of data; in 1994 it was Seychelles ahead.

Japan ranks 159th and Seychelles ranks 156th of 185 countries.

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Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Japan
Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Seychelles
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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.