Hong Kong Unemployment Rate
The share of the labour force that wants a job and is actively looking, but can't find one.
2.8%
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1991 to 2025
Source: World Bank SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS · International Labour Organization modelled estimate, % of the labour force, annual.
Hong Kong Unemployment Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Hong Kong, the unemployment rate fell by 0.2pp in 2025, from 3.0% in 2024.
It is the lowest reading since 1997.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 2.8% in 2025 to 5.8% in 2020.
Its average since 1991 is 4.0%, and the latest reading is below that.
Hong Kong is 57th of 62 countries in our Unemployment Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- World Bank
- Series
- SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, annual data
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
This is the ILO's modelled estimate, not the statistics office's own survey rate.
Data refreshed 2026-10-16. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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