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Cyprus: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1975–2025 · 51 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
4.35%percent
Change on 2024
−0.5 pointsfrom 4.86%
Average, 2016–2025
7.55%10 years
Record high and low
17.6% (1977)low 1.70% (1979)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20314.73Forecast
20304.73Forecast
20294.73Forecast
20284.73Forecast
20274.20Forecast
20264.20Forecast
20254.35
20244.86
20235.82
20226.28
20217.15
20207.55
20197.13
20188.35
201711.1
201613.0

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1975–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1982–2025
  • AMECO (European Commission)1997–2025
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor2000–2025
  • Eurostat2009–2025
  • AMECO (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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