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Belize: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1990–2024 · 35 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2024
2.60%percent
Change on 2023
−0.7 pointsfrom 3.35%
Average, 2015–2024
8.35%10 years
Record high and low
18.5% (2010)low 2.60% (2024)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20312.60Forecast
20302.60Forecast
20292.60Forecast
20282.60Forecast
20272.60Forecast
20262.60Forecast
20252.60Forecast
20242.60
20233.35
20226.10
202110.3
202013.8
20199.04
20189.38
20179.33
20169.54
201510.1

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2024
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1993–2021
  • International Labour Organization2001–2020
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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Belize 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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