Libyan unemployment is third most severe in Arab world

Libya now has one of the highest unemployment rates in the Arab world, with only Jordan and Sudan worse off in 2025, according to Maghrebi Week on December 8th.

New regional economic indicators were published by Trading Economics, which illustrated the scale of Libya’s labour market stagnation among other gauges of the national economy’s well-being.

The new data revealed that Jordan has the highest regional unemployment rate at 21.3%, followed by Sudan at 20.8% and Libya at third with 18.6%, which is a marginal improvement of -0.1% from last year’s figure.

Maghrebi Week, Trading Economics