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Costa Rica: Unemployment rate

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

2025
6.33%percent
Change on 2024
−0.6 pointsfrom 6.88%
Average, 2016–2025
10.9%10 years
Record high and low
20.0% (2020)low 3.77% (1989)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20318.00Forecast
20308.00Forecast
20298.00Forecast
20287.50Forecast
20277.20Forecast
20266.74Forecast
20256.33
20246.88
20237.30
202211.7
202113.7
202020.0
201912.4
201812.0
20179.29
20169.54

Sources

  • Central American Monetary Council (historical)1976–2017
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1990–2025
  • International Labour Organization2001–2023
  • OECD Economic Outlook2010–2025
  • OECD Key Economic Indicators2011–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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