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Nicaragua: Unemployment rate

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

2025
2.69%percent
Change on 2024
−0.4 pointsfrom 3.06%
Average, 2016–2025
3.84%10 years
Record high and low
17.1% (1994)low 2.69% (2025)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20313.00Forecast
20302.69Forecast
20292.69Forecast
20282.69Forecast
20272.69Forecast
20262.69Forecast
20252.69
20243.06
20233.36
20223.53
20213.67
20204.82
20194.93
20185.25
20173.27
20163.85

Sources

  • Central American Monetary Council (historical)1980–2017
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1985–2018
  • International Labour Organization2001–2018
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Nicaragua 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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