Syria unemployment rate
Unemployment as a share of the total labor force, from ILO modeled estimates published by the World Bank, with the world average for scale.
Syria (2025)
13.6%
≈ 2.8× the world average
World average (2025)
4.8%
ILO modeled estimate, all economies
Syria, year by year
Share of the labor force without work. Source: World Bank / ILO.
About this data
Figures come from World Bank Open Data (indicator SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS), an ILO modeled estimate: the International Labour Organization derives comparable unemployment rates for countries where direct labor-force surveys are irregular or missing.
Two caveats matter for Syria. Modeled estimates smooth over gaps in the underlying surveys, so year-to-year changes should be read cautiously. And a large share of Syrian employment is informal — people counted as employed may be underemployed or working outside any formal structure.
This page refreshes hourly. The ILO revises its model roughly twice a year.