Taiwan Unemployment Rate
The share of the labour force that wants a job and is actively looking, but can't find one, averaged over the year.
3.4%
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1980 to 2024
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook (LUR) · unemployment rate, % of the labour force, annual · actual years only. The IMF's figures for the years after the one shown are projections, which this site does not publish.
Taiwan Unemployment Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Taiwan, the unemployment rate fell by 0.1pp in 2024, from 3.5% in 2023.
It is the lowest reading since 2000.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 3.4% in 2024 to 4.0% in 2021.
Its average since 1980 is 3.2%, and the latest reading is above that.
Taiwan is 42nd of 56 countries in our Unemployment Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- IMF
- Series
- World
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, annual data
- Latest observation
- 2024
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-10-12. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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