# Unemployment rate: Dominican Republic

5.092% in 2025, the latest year published. Figures for 35 years from 1991 to 2025 are below.

Share of the labor force without work, but actively looking for a job and available to start soon.

Source: ILO Modelled Estimates, via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data. [Source and method](/sources/unemployment) · [All countries and regions](/unemployment).

## Every year

| Year | Value (%) |
| ---: | ---: |
| 2025 | 5.092 |
| 2024 | 5.312 |
| 2023 | 5.555 |
| 2022 | 5.504 |
| 2021 | 7.702 |
| 2020 | 6.126 |
| 2019 | 6.356 |
| 2018 | 5.861 |
| 2017 | 5.832 |
| 2016 | 7.284 |
| 2015 | 7.605 |
| 2014 | 6.719 |
| 2013 | 7.351 |
| 2012 | 6.722 |
| 2011 | 6.087 |
| 2010 | 5.212 |
| 2009 | 5.467 |
| 2008 | 4.764 |
| 2007 | 5.158 |
| 2006 | 5.654 |
| 2005 | 6.587 |
| 2004 | 6.303 |
| 2003 | 6.938 |
| 2002 | 6.779 |
| 2001 | 7.262 |
| 2000 | 6.432 |
| 1999 | 6.312 |
| 1998 | 6.304 |
| 1997 | 6.323 |
| 1996 | 6.485 |
| 1995 | 6.439 |
| 1994 | 6.285 |
| 1993 | 6.322 |
| 1992 | 6.669 |
| 1991 | 6.863 |

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