# Unemployment rate: Nicaragua

5.04% 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 | 5.04 |
| 2024 | 4.98 |
| 2023 | 4.698 |
| 2022 | 4.969 |
| 2021 | 6.076 |
| 2020 | 6.18 |
| 2019 | 5.457 |
| 2018 | 5.2 |
| 2017 | 3.3 |
| 2016 | 3.9 |
| 2015 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 4.52 |
| 2013 | 5.28 |
| 2012 | 5.208 |
| 2011 | 6.613 |
| 2010 | 7.83 |
| 2009 | 8.16 |
| 2008 | 6.2 |
| 2007 | 4.89 |
| 2006 | 5.31 |
| 2005 | 5.37 |
| 2004 | 6.41 |
| 2003 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 7.517 |
| 2001 | 7.222 |
| 2000 | 7.181 |
| 1999 | 7.18 |
| 1998 | 7.203 |
| 1997 | 7.1 |
| 1996 | 7.12 |
| 1995 | 7.414 |
| 1994 | 7.668 |
| 1993 | 7.833 |
| 1992 | 7.809 |
| 1991 | 7.909 |

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