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Barbados: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1976–2025 · 50 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
6.85%percent
Change on 2024
−0.4 pointsfrom 7.23%
Average, 2016–2025
10.0%10 years
Record high and low
24.4% (1993)low 6.85% (2025)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20316.80Forecast
20306.78Forecast
20296.85Forecast
20286.82Forecast
20276.79Forecast
20266.83Forecast
20256.85
20247.23
20238.48
20228.15
202114.1
202015.7
201910.1
201810.1
20179.95
20169.65

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1976–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1981–2025
  • International Labour Organization2000–2021
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Barbados 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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