# Unemployment rate: Latin America and Caribbean (WB)

5.459077% 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 | 5.459077 |
| 2024 | 5.869433 |
| 2023 | 6.1925473 |
| 2022 | 6.931532 |
| 2021 | 9.144684 |
| 2020 | 10.214073 |
| 2019 | 8.000615 |
| 2018 | 7.93332 |
| 2017 | 8.028206 |
| 2016 | 7.7368245 |
| 2015 | 6.676959 |
| 2014 | 6.183106 |
| 2013 | 6.378566 |
| 2012 | 6.421183 |
| 2011 | 6.715346 |
| 2010 | 7.2182674 |
| 2009 | 7.8147874 |
| 2008 | 6.8392105 |
| 2007 | 7.226305 |
| 2006 | 7.614136 |
| 2005 | 8.237399 |
| 2004 | 8.750182 |
| 2003 | 9.2566185 |
| 2002 | 9.387907 |
| 2001 | 9.049757 |
| 2000 | 9.444523 |
| 1999 | 9.427017 |
| 1998 | 8.486261 |
| 1997 | 8.140113 |
| 1996 | 8.291195 |
| 1995 | 7.904868 |
| 1994 | 6.6778007 |
| 1993 | 6.071341 |
| 1992 | 6.3038535 |
| 1991 | 6.3099575 |

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