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Viet Nam Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate)
What is Viet Nam's unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ilo estimate)? As of 2023, it's 1.6% of total labor force, up from 1.3% of total labor force in 2014.
| Label | Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 1.256% of total labor force |
| 2015 | 1.848% of total labor force |
| 2016 | 1.848% of total labor force |
| 2017 | 1.874% of total labor force |
| 2018 | 1.161% of total labor force |
| 2019 | 1.681% of total labor force |
| 2020 | 2.103% of total labor force |
| 2021 | 2.383% of total labor force |
| 2022 | 1.57% of total labor force |
| 2023 | 1.645% of total labor force |
Data Source: World Bank and Wantstats Repository
Viet Nam Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate): Key Points
- By 2023, Viet Nam's unemployment, total (% of total labor force) came to 1.65 % of total labor force, against 1.26 % of total labor force in 2014 — around 31% up across the period.
- 2015: leaps to 1.85 % of total labor force (+47%).
- 2018: falls away sharply to 1.16 % of total labor force (-38%).
- 2019: shoots up to 1.68 % of total labor force (+45%).
- 2020-2021: surges to 2.38 % of total labor force (+42%).
- 2023: Series wraps up at 1.65 % of total labor force, a net 31.0% gain across the whole run.
Why Joblessness Spiked in 2020
Treat this less like a trend and more like a set of individual events. Something different seems to be driving each up or down move rather than one consistent force.
This spike isn't a local labor-market failure — it's the pandemic. COVID-19 lockdowns shut down entire sectors overnight in 2020, and unemployment jumped in almost every economy at the same time.
This data comes from Viet Nam's statistical reporting, sourced from the link below. As with most cross-country indicator datasets, expect the underlying survey to run less often than annually, with gaps modeled in between.
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