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Dominican Republic: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1991–2025 · 35 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
5.16%percent
Change on 2024
+0.0 pointsfrom 5.14%
Average, 2016–2025
5.85%10 years
Record high and low
9.54% (1992)low 5.14% (2024)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20315.00Forecast
20305.00Forecast
20295.10Forecast
20285.20Forecast
20275.20Forecast
20265.30Forecast
20255.16
20245.14
20235.31
20225.29
20217.38
20205.83
20196.17
20185.66
20175.51
20167.08

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1991–2024
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1991–2025
  • Central American Monetary Council (historical)1996–2016
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor2015–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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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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