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Macau: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1989–2025 · 37 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
1.70%percent
Change on 2024
−0.1 pointsfrom 1.80%
Average, 2016–2025
2.27%10 years
Record high and low
6.80% (2000)low 1.70% (2014)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20311.65Forecast
20301.65Forecast
20291.65Forecast
20281.65Forecast
20271.65Forecast
20261.70Forecast
20251.70
20241.80
20232.65
20223.68
20212.95
20202.55
20191.73
20181.80
20171.98
20161.90

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1989–2020
  • International Labour Organization2000–2020
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2001–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Macau 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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