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Bahamas: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1973–2024 · 43 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2024
8.40%percent
Change on 2023
−1.8 pointsfrom 10.2%
Average, 2015–2024
12.9%10 years
Record high and low
25.9% (2020)low 6.90% (2001)

Unemployment rate

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5%10%15%20%25%30%198019902000201020202030BahamasBahamas
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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20319.00Forecast
20309.00Forecast
20299.00Forecast
20289.00Forecast
20279.20Forecast
20269.40Forecast
20259.50Forecast
20248.40
202310.2
202210.7
202117.4
202025.9
201910.1
201810.4
201710.1
201612.2
201513.4

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1973–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1986–2024
  • International Labour Organization2001–2023
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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Bahamas documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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