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Cape Verde: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1980–2024 · 45 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2024
8.50%percent
Change on 2023
0.0 pointsfrom 8.50%
Average, 2015–2024
10.3%10 years
Record high and low
26.0% (1992)low 8.50% (2019)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20318.50Forecast
20308.50Forecast
20298.50Forecast
20288.50Forecast
20278.50Forecast
20268.50Forecast
20258.50Forecast
20248.50
20238.50
20228.50
20218.50
20208.50
20198.50
201812.2
201712.2
201615.0
201512.4

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1990–2019
  • International Labour Organization2009–2019
  • African Development Bank2010
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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Cape Verde 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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