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Mauritius: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1982–2025 · 44 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
5.87%percent
Change on 2024
+0.2 pointsfrom 5.70%
Average, 2016–2025
7.08%10 years
Record high and low
20.6% (1982)low 2.73% (1991)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20315.91Forecast
20305.91Forecast
20295.91Forecast
20285.91Forecast
20275.91Forecast
20265.90Forecast
20255.87
20245.70
20236.11
20226.80
20219.10
20209.20
20196.70
20186.90
20177.10
20167.30

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1982–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1995–2024
  • African Development Bank2000–2014
  • International Labour Organization2001–2023
  • 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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