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

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

In , Germany's Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) was 3.71, compared to Sweden's 8.69. That makes Germany's value 57.3% lower than Sweden's.

Germany

Rank #120 of 182 globally

Germany trend
Latest (2025)
3.71
Year-over-year
+9.1%
10-year change
-19.5%
Peak
10.28 (2006)
Trough
3.07 (2023)

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.