COUNTRY / INDICATOR

Serbia Unemployment

Serbia unemployment: latest available value for 2025, historical series from 1997, ranking context and source documentation.

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SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS

COUNTRY: SerbiaINDICATOR: SL.UEM.TOTL.ZSUNIT: percentSOURCE: World Bank Indicators APISOURCE KEY: worldbankDATA UPDATED: 2026-07-13 02:00:00FETCHED: 2026-08-01 03:20:57REVISIONS: 0ORIGINAL API RESPONSE

7,12Latest / 2025

-0,12Change from previous

15,13Series average

132Global rank / 192

Serbia / Unemployment Unit: Percent (%)

Selected year: 20257,12%

199720252025

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Year	Value	Change
2025	7,12	-0,12
2024	7,24	-1,03
2023	8,27	-0,17
2022	8,44	-1,40
2021	9,84	0,83
2020	9,01	-1,38
2019	10,40	-2,34
2018	12,73	-0,74
2017	13,48	-1,78
2016	15,26	-3,64
2015	18,90	-1,70
2014	20,60	-2,40
2013	23,00	-1,60
2012	24,60	1,00
2011	23,60	3,60
2010	20,00	3,10
2009	16,90	2,50
2008	14,40	-4,40
2007	18,80	-2,80
2006	21,60	-0,20
2005	21,80	2,30
2004	19,50	3,50
2003	16,00	1,50
2002	14,50	2,30
2001	12,20	0,10
2000	12,10	-1,20
1999	13,30	0,50
1998	12,80	0,50
1997	12,30	—

Source methodology

World Development Indicators

Indicator note: Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment.

Source organization: ILO Modelled Estimates database (ILOEST), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: January 17, 2026

Metadata fetched: 2026-08-01 01:21:22. Open original metadata response.

Country-specific interpretation

Automatically derived from the displayed series

Serbia recorded 7,12 percent in 2025, the latest year available in this series.

Compared with 2024, the unemployment decreased by 0,12.

Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an downward direction.

Across 29 observations from 1997 to 2025, the average was 15,13; the minimum was 7,12 in 2025 and the maximum was 24,60 in 2012.

Serbia ranks 132 out of 192 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.

The latest value is above the available average for Europe & Central Asia.

It is also below the available average for the Upper middle income group.

Labor-market slack and employment pressure.

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