📉ASEAN Countries by Unemployment Pressure (Q2 2026)
What counts: Order as presented in the deck, from Thailand through Vietnam, based on the composition of hidden unemployment stress (graduate mismatch, youth joblessness, underemployment) beneath each country's headline rate
Lowest headline rate at 0.95%, but real wages fell 2.88% and business closures rose 12.5%.
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04.65% unemployment with 14.3% of jobless holding university degrees, nearly double the share from four years ago.
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0Unemployment hit 4.9%, with only 310K of 592K youth entrants finding work in June.
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03.0% overall rate masks youth unemployment at 10.2% and 1.95 million graduates stuck in sub-skilled roles.
added by P@$$ PeraltaMalaysia
02.0% rate with 19 straight quarters of job growth, yet retrenchments hit a post-2020 high and 1 in 5 fresh grads still job-hunting.
added by P@$$ PeraltaSingapore
0Around 2% overall but youth unemployment at 8.67%, nearly four times the national rate, with 1.4–1.6 million 'three-no' youth annually.
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