COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Guinea-Bissau Youth Unemployment
Guinea-Bissau youth unemployment: latest available value for 2025, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
SL.UEM.1524.ZS| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,84 | 0,02 |
| 2024 | 2,83 | 0,01 |
| 2023 | 2,82 | -0,02 |
| 2022 | 2,84 | -0,11 |
| 2021 | 2,94 | 0,21 |
| 2020 | 2,73 | 0,67 |
| 2019 | 2,06 | -1,80 |
| 2018 | 3,87 | 0,03 |
| 2017 | 3,84 | -0,03 |
| 2016 | 3,87 | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator note: Youth unemployment refers to the share of the labor force ages 15-24 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: 2026-09-27 03:53:27. Open original metadata response.
Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesGuinea-Bissau recorded 2,84 percent in 2025, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2024, the youth unemployment increased by 0,02.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.
Across 10 observations from 2016 to 2025, the average was 3,06; the minimum was 2,06 in 2019 and the maximum was 3,87 in 2018.
Guinea-Bissau ranks 10 out of 187 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is below the available average for Sub-Saharan Africa.
It is also below the available average for the Low income group.
Labor-market access for young people.