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Mexico: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
2.65%percent
Change on 2024
−0.0 pointsfrom 2.67%
Average, 2016–2025
3.40%10 years
Record high and low
6.23% (1995)low 0.90% (1981)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20312.80Forecast
20302.80Forecast
20292.79Forecast
20282.77Forecast
20272.75Forecast
20262.77Forecast
20252.65
20242.67
20232.80
20223.27
20214.14
20204.41
20193.49
20183.33
20173.42
20163.87

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • OECD Key Economic Indicators1987–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1988–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1991–2025
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor2005–2025
  • 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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