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Bulgaria vs Sweden: Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate)

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

In , Bulgaria's Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) was 3.54, compared to Sweden's 8.69. That makes Bulgaria's value 59.3% lower than Sweden's.

Bulgaria

Rank #124 of 182 globally

Bulgaria trend
Latest (2025)
3.54
Year-over-year
-15.8%
10-year change
-61.3%
Peak
12.94 (2013)
Trough
3.54 (2025)

Sweden

Rank #44 of 182 globally

Sweden trend
Latest (2025)
8.69
Year-over-year
+3.5%
10-year change
+17.0%
Peak
8.80 (2021)
Trough
6.16 (2007)

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