Official data
Thailand: unemployment by year, 2000–2025
Unemployment rate, % of the labor force
Latest year, 2025: 1%
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare the unemployment rate since 2000 across Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
Method
Official annual series (2000–2025), read directly from the source without adjustments and plotted as published.
- Read. Reads series LUR directly as published by the source.
- Period. Keeps one value per year, 2000 to 2025.
- Chart. Draws the series as a line and marks the latest year.
- The most recent years can be IMF estimates.
- Source
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Dataset
- World Economic Outlook (October 2026)
- Series code
- LUR
Read from the Belo Lake on November 8, 2026.
Data
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1.3 |
| 2021 | 1.9 |
| 2020 | 1.7 |
| 2019 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1.1 |
| 2017 | 1.2 |
| 2016 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0.9 |
| 2014 | 0.8 |
| 2013 | 0.7 |
| 2012 | 0.7 |
| 2011 | 0.7 |
| 2010 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1.5 |
| 2008 | 1.4 |
| 2007 | 1.4 |
| 2006 | 1.5 |
| 2005 | 1.9 |
| 2004 | 2.1 |
| 2003 | 2.2 |
| 2002 | 2.4 |
| 2001 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 3.6 |