El Salvador: Unemployment rate
Percent · 1978–2024 · 42 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp
- 2024
- 4.65%percent
- Change on 2023
- −0.6 pointsfrom 5.22%
- Average, 2015–2024
- 6.28%10 years
- Record high and low
- 17.0% (1985)low 3.73% (1978)
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| Year | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| 2031 | 4.78 | Forecast |
| 2030 | 4.78 | Forecast |
| 2029 | 4.67 | Forecast |
| 2028 | 4.55 | Forecast |
| 2027 | 4.43 | Forecast |
| 2026 | 4.32 | Forecast |
| 2025 | 4.20 | Forecast |
| 2024 | 4.65 | |
| 2023 | 5.22 | |
| 2022 | 5.05 | |
| 2021 | 6.34 | |
| 2020 | 7.04 | |
| 2019 | 6.49 | |
| 2018 | 6.50 | |
| 2017 | 7.19 | |
| 2016 | 7.14 | |
| 2015 | 7.14 |
Sources
- IMF International Financial Statistics1978–2024
- Central American Monetary Council (historical)1988–2017
- IMF World Economic Outlook1988–2024
- International Labour Organization2000–2023
- IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
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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