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In 2017, the unemployment rate in Sao Tome and Principe amounted to 13.47 percent. Between 1980 and 2017, the figure dropped by 0.15 percentage points, though the decline followed an uneven course rather than a steady trajectory.

This indicator describes the unemployment rate, which can be defined by either the national definition, the ILO harmonized definition, or the OECD harmonized definition. The latter defines it as the number of unemployed people divided by the total labor force.