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Jamaica: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1969–2025 · 55 observations · unemp

2025
3.40%percent
Change on 2024
−0.8 pointsfrom 4.18%
Average, 2016–2025
7.85%10 years
Record high and low
27.6% (1982)low 3.40% (2025)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20253.40
20244.18
20234.40
20226.27
20218.38
202010.2
20197.70
20189.13
201711.7
201613.2

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1969–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025

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Jamaica documentation (PDF)

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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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