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Argentina vs South Africa: Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate)

Side-by-side comparison from World Bank Open Data.

In , Argentina's Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) was 7.15, compared to South Africa's 32.39. That makes Argentina's value 77.9% lower than South Africa's.

Argentina

Rank #55 of 182 globally

Argentina trend
Latest (2025)
7.15
Year-over-year
-0.1%
10-year change
-5.7%
Peak
11.46 (2020)
Trough
6.14 (2023)

South Africa

Rank #2 of 182 globally

South Africa trend
Latest (2025)
32.39
Year-over-year
+0.3%
10-year change
+28.8%
Peak
34.01 (2021)
Trough
22.26 (2007)

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Source: World Bank Open Data (SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS), CC BY 4.0.