Zambia's jobless rate fell to 9.9 percent in 2025 from 12.9 percent in 2024, the Zambia Statistics Agency reported in an official statistics release. Over the same period, the share of the population holding jobs climbed from 33.1 percent to 37.1 percent. These results were unveiled on 16 October 2026 at the Dissemination of the 2025 Labour Force Survey, staged by the Zambia Statistics Agency together with the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. Statistician General Sheila Mudenda reported that the working-age population, meaning those aged 15 years and above, stood at an estimated 12.8 million. Roughly 5.28 million of them formed the labour force, with 4.76 million in work and 523,751 without jobs.
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