Belgium vs Netherlands: Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate)
Side-by-side comparison from World Bank Open Data.
In , Belgium's Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) was 5.91, compared to Netherlands's 3.87. That makes Belgium's value 52.5% higher than Netherlands's.
Belgium
Rank #76 of 182 globally
- Latest (2025)
- 5.91
- Year-over-year
- +3.6%
- 10-year change
- -30.4%
- Peak
- 8.52 (2014)
- Trough
- 5.36 (2019)
Netherlands
Rank #116 of 182 globally
- Latest (2025)
- 3.87
- Year-over-year
- +4.7%
- 10-year change
- -43.6%
- Peak
- 7.42 (2014)
- Trough
- 3.38 (2019)
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Source: World Bank Open Data (SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS), CC BY 4.0.