What male unemployment is
Male unemployment (SL.UEM.TOTL.MA.ZS, ILO modelled). Ranked by each economy’s latest published year.
Source: World Bank Open Data. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (terms).
Taiwan
Taiwan — Male
TW desk: Taiwan first (IMF WEO headline rate); Korea, United States, euro area, United Kingdom and Australia alongside.
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World Bank Open Data does not publish this series for Taiwan. Related-country figures below use the same ILO modelled estimates as the all-countries pages.
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.68% |
| 2024 | 2.75% |
| 2023 | 2.64% |
| 2022 | 2.72% |
| 2021 | 3.56% |
| 2020 | 3.89% |
| 2019 | 3.87% |
| 2018 | 3.92% |
| 2017 | 3.78% |
| 2016 | 3.73% |
| 2015 | 3.59% |
| 2014 | 3.17% |
| 2013 | 3.26% |
| 2012 | 2.99% |
| 2011 | 3.24% |
| 2010 | 3.66% |
| 2009 | 3.83% |
| 2008 | 3.35% |
| 2007 | 3.44% |
| 2006 | 3.63% |
| 2005 | 3.75% |
| 2004 | 3.66% |
| 2003 | 3.56% |
| 2002 | 3.43% |
#CountryMaleChangeYear
71Euro area5.98%−0.14 pp202589China5.12%+0.03 pp2025
90United Kingdom5.06%+0.49 pp2025111United States4.21%+0.10 pp2025114Australia4.13%+0.08 pp2025146Singapore2.78%+0.01 pp2025152Korea, Rep.2.68%−0.08 pp2025157Japan2.58%−0.05 pp2025
Reading this series
This series is the unemployment rate for men: men without work who are available for and actively seeking it, as a share of the male labour force. The source is World Bank Open Data indicator SL.UEM.TOTL.MA.ZS, an ILO modelled estimate that uses the same definition as the all-ages rate. It measures joblessness among men who are in the labour market, not the share of men who work. The gap with the female series can reflect joblessness, but it can also reflect differences in participation, because men outside the labour force are not counted as unemployed.
The chart plots annual observations for the economies you select; the range buttons shorten the period and the legend or table adds and removes lines. The ranked ledger shows each economy’s latest published year, and those years differ. Read the two sex series together, and check participation, before drawing a conclusion. The values are modelled estimates built from national surveys and censuses and revised as inputs change, so treat small cross-country gaps with caution.
About this desk
The World Bank does not publish Taiwan on any of these labour series, and the IMF World Economic Outlook carries only a headline unemployment rate for it. This desk therefore shows a Taiwanese value on the unemployment page alone; the youth, female, male, participation and employment pages present related economies only. That set is Korea, the United States, Japan, China, the euro area, the United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore, as far as each source provides them. The build does not present a Taiwanese figure the sources have not published.
The values are the same World Bank ILO modelled estimates used on the all-countries pages, filtered to this comparison set. Use the Country selector to move to a desk with its own series, the Chart and Table tabs for two views, and the range buttons to shorten the window. Indicator codes and licences are named on each page.