In 2023, unemployment rate for Democratic Republic of the Congo was 4.5 %. Over the last 3 years, unemployment rate in Democratic Republic of the Congo was decreasing on average by 6.19% each year, although before that, it grew from 3 % in 2005 to 5.5 % in 2021.
The description is composed by our digital data assistant.Unemployment rate can be defined by either the national definition, the ILO harmonized definition, or the OECD harmonized definition. The OECD harmonized unemployment rate gives the number of unemployed persons as a percentage of the labor force (the total number of people employed plus unemployed). [OECD Main Economic Indicators, OECD, monthly] As defined by the International Labour Organization, "unemployed workers" are those who are currently not working but are willing and able to work for pay, currently available to work, and have actively searched for work. [ILO, http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/stat/res/index.htm]