Ireland: Unemployment rate
Percent · 1923–2025 · 103 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp
- 2025
- 4.65%percent
- Change on 2024
- +0.3 pointsfrom 4.32%
- Average, 2016–2025
- 5.58%10 years
- Record high and low
- 19.0% (1991)low 3.26% (1929)
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| Year | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| 2031 | 5.04 | Forecast |
| 2030 | 4.93 | Forecast |
| 2029 | 4.90 | Forecast |
| 2028 | 4.84 | Forecast |
| 2027 | 4.90 | Forecast |
| 2026 | 4.26 | Forecast |
| 2025 | 4.65 | |
| 2024 | 4.32 | |
| 2023 | 4.31 | |
| 2022 | 4.45 | |
| 2021 | 6.26 | |
| 2020 | 5.85 | |
| 2019 | 4.99 | |
| 2018 | 5.82 | |
| 2017 | 6.76 | |
| 2016 | 8.38 |
Sources
- Stuart1923–2014
- Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1960–2020
- AMECO (European Commission)1960–2025
- IMF International Financial Statistics1983–2025
- OECD Key Economic Indicators1983–2025
- IMF World Economic Outlook1985–2025
- OECD Economic Outlook1990–2025
- World Bank Global Economic Monitor1990–2025
- International Labour Organization2000–2023
- Eurostat2009–2025
- AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
- OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
- IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031
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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