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Thailand Unemployment Rate

Latest

0.8%

0.0pp vs prior

2025 · updated 2026-09-07

Unemployment Rate

1991 to 2025

Source: World Bank SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS · modeled ILO estimate, % of total labour force, annual.

The share of people aged 15 and over who want a job and are actively looking, but can't find one. Thailand's rate is genuinely one of the lowest in the world, consistently under 1% in recent years; that's real, not a data error.