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Panama: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1970–2025 · 56 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
10.4%percent
Change on 2024
+0.9 pointsfrom 9.53%
Average, 2016–2025
9.18%10 years
Record high and low
18.9% (1989)low 4.05% (2012)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20316.00Forecast
20306.88Forecast
20297.76Forecast
20288.64Forecast
20279.52Forecast
202610.4Forecast
202510.4
20249.53
20237.43
20229.92
202111.3
202018.5
20197.07
20185.96
20176.13
20165.49

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1970–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Panama 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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