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Portugal: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1953–2025 · 73 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
6.00%percent
Change on 2024
−0.5 pointsfrom 6.47%
Average, 2016–2025
7.34%10 years
Record high and low
17.2% (2013)low 3.15% (1958)

Unemployment rate

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2%4%6%8%10%12%14%16%18%19601970198019902000201020202030PortugalPortugal
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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20315.68Forecast
20305.68Forecast
20295.68Forecast
20285.77Forecast
20275.80Forecast
20266.23Forecast
20256.00
20246.47
20236.59
20226.18
20216.72
20207.09
20196.63
20187.18
20179.23
201611.3

Sources

  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1953–2020
  • AMECO (European Commission)1960–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1974–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • OECD Key Economic Indicators1983–2025
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor1995–2025
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023
  • Eurostat2009–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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Portugal 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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