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Latvia: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1990–2025 · 36 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
6.93%percent
Change on 2024
+0.0 pointsfrom 6.93%
Average, 2016–2025
7.50%10 years
Record high and low
20.7% (1996)low 0.40% (1990)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20316.26Forecast
20306.35Forecast
20296.44Forecast
20286.48Forecast
20276.70Forecast
20266.59Forecast
20256.93
20246.93
20236.50
20226.85
20217.55
20208.10
20196.31
20187.41
20178.71
20169.64

Sources

  • AMECO (European Commission)1990–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1992–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1996–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1996–2025
  • OECD Key Economic Indicators1999–2025
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor2002–2025
  • Eurostat2009–2025
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (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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