WORLD PULSE
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World Pulse · dashboard

The world, indicator by indicator

21 indicators · 217 countries · 156,366 observations. Each indicator is read at the most recent year that still has near-complete coverage. Neither rule works alone: child stunting's newest year has six reporters, and internet use is best covered in 1990, when nearly every country reported it as zero.

Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate)

read at 2025 · 1 year old

Share of the labour force without work but available for and seeking employment.

World median

5.1% of labour force

Countries reporting

182/ 217

Observations, all years

6.5k

The median is computed across the 182 countries reporting in 2025 — arithmetic over real values, not a published figure. Lower is better for this indicator.

How the world is spread · 2025

8 countries between 0.1 and 1.3 % of labour force16 countries between 1.3 and 2.6 % of labour force41 countries between 2.6 and 3.8 % of labour force21 countries between 3.8 and 5.0 % of labour force28 countries between 5.0 and 6.2 % of labour force14 countries between 6.2 and 7.4 % of labour force10 countries between 7.4 and 8.6 % of labour force9 countries between 8.6 and 9.9 % of labour force5 countries between 9.9 and 11.1 % of labour force9 countries between 11.1 and 12.3 % of labour force2 countries between 12.3 and 13.5 % of labour force3 countries between 13.5 and 14.7 % of labour force3 countries between 14.7 and 15.9 % of labour force2 countries between 15.9 and 17.2 % of labour force2 countries between 17.2 and 18.4 % of labour force3 countries between 18.4 and 19.6 % of labour force2 countries between 19.6 and 20.8 % of labour force1 country between 24.5 and 25.7 % of labour force1 country between 25.7 and 26.9 % of labour force1 country between 31.8 and 33.0 % of labour force1 country between 33.0 and 34.2 % of labour forceMEDIAN0.134.2
182 countries reporting · each bar is a count of countries, not a value · Pakistan 5.4 % of labour force

How much of the world was measured

ALL 2171991: 187 of 217 countries reported1992: 187 of 217 countries reported1993: 187 of 217 countries reported1994: 187 of 217 countries reported1995: 187 of 217 countries reported1996: 187 of 217 countries reported1997: 187 of 217 countries reported1998: 187 of 217 countries reported1999: 187 of 217 countries reported2000: 187 of 217 countries reported2001: 187 of 217 countries reported2002: 187 of 217 countries reported2003: 187 of 217 countries reported2004: 187 of 217 countries reported2005: 187 of 217 countries reported2006: 187 of 217 countries reported2007: 187 of 217 countries reported2008: 187 of 217 countries reported2009: 187 of 217 countries reported2010: 187 of 217 countries reported2011: 187 of 217 countries reported2012: 187 of 217 countries reported2013: 187 of 217 countries reported2014: 187 of 217 countries reported2015: 187 of 217 countries reported2016: 187 of 217 countries reported2017: 187 of 217 countries reported2018: 187 of 217 countries reported2019: 187 of 217 countries reported2020: 187 of 217 countries reported2021: 187 of 217 countries reported2022: 186 of 217 countries reported2023: 184 of 217 countries reported2024: 182 of 217 countries reported2025: 182 of 217 countries reported19912025
Best year 1991 with 187 of 217 · most recent 2025 with 182. A short bar means the world did not measure, not that the value fell.

Highest · 2025

Eswatini34.2
South Africa32.4
Djibouti26.0
Botswana24.5
Gabon20.2
Congo, Rep.19.9
Namibia19.3
Somalia, Fed. Rep.18.9

Lowest · 2025

Qatar0.1
Cambodia0.3
Niger0.4
Thailand0.8
Burundi0.9
Chad1.1
Bahrain1.1
Lao PDR1.2

Read with care

  • · MODELLED. An ILO estimate harmonised across countries, not each country's own published figure.
  • · In economies with large informal sectors, low measured unemployment can coexist with widespread underemployment — a low number here is not automatically good news.

What we can actually see

Coverage is wildly uneven, and that unevenness is a finding rather than a footnote. Life expectancy is near-universal; the survey-based indicators are not. Sorted by how much of the world reports at all.

IndicatorCountriesYearsRead atObservations
Life expectancy217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,071
Fertility rate217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,073
Population217 / 2171960–20252025 (217)14,292
Electricity access216 / 2171990–20242024 (215)6,747
GDP per capita214 / 2171960–20252025 (186)11,764
Internet use213 / 2171990–20252024 (182)6,224
Primary enrolment209 / 2171970–20252023 (166)7,495
GDP per capita (PPP)203 / 2171990–20252025 (185)7,020
Education spending203 / 2171970–20252022 (164)5,124
CO₂ per person203 / 2171970–20242024 (203)11,165
Under-5 mortality196 / 2171960–20242024 (196)11,861
Maternal mortality194 / 2171985–20232023 (194)7,566
Inflation193 / 2171960–20252025 (165)9,136
Health spending193 / 2172000–20242023 (192)4,562
Unemployment187 / 2171991–20252025 (182)6,531
Extreme poverty171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Income inequality (Gini)171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Adult literacy170 / 2171970–20242022 (45)1,121
Military spending164 / 2171960–20242024 (147)7,909
Child stunting163 / 2171983–20242018 (48)1,129
Safe drinking water151 / 2172000–20242024 (148)3,716

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Nothing here is interpolated — where a country never reported, it is absent rather than estimated. Browse every country →