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Venezuela: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1950–2020 · 70 observations · unemp

2020
7.53%percent
Average, 2011–2020
6.90%9 years
Record high and low
18.2% (2003)low 4.98% (1978)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20207.53
20186.91
20175.05
20165.32
20156.81
20146.92
20137.54
20127.83
20118.20
20108.51

Sources

  • Baptista1950–1995
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1975–2020
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1999–2011
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor1999–2018
  • International Labour Organization2001–2020
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2011–2018

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Venezuela 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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