Iraq was, by far, the country with the highest unemployment rate among foreign-born citizens in the world, with nearly half of the country's foreign-born population being unemployed in 2023. By comparison, Eswatini and Pakistan, the two countries with the second and third highest foreign-born unemployment rate, had rates below 24 percent.
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