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Unemployment rate in Bolivia

How hard is it to have a job there?

Bolivia's unemployment rate is 2.97 % — #22 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

2.97%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

Source: World Bank open data (GDP growth, GDP/capita, unemployment, government debt)

Unemployment rate in Bolivia over time

7.90 %4.96 %2.02 %7.90 % · 20202.02 % · 20142000: 2.44 %2001: 2.62 %2002: 2.60 %2003: 2.65 %2004: 2.62 %2005: 2.60 %2006: 2.58 %2007: 2.61 %2008: 2.60 %2009: 2.97 %2010: 2.61 %2011: 2.25 %2012: 2.07 %2013: 2.44 %2014: 2.02 %2015: 3.11 %2016: 3.50 %2017: 3.65 %2018: 3.52 %2019: 3.68 %2020: 7.90 %2021: 5.09 %2022: 3.55 %2023: 3.02 %2024: 3.27 %2025: 2.97 %2000201220252.97 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#22 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
82 %
102 of 124 countries
Latest move
▼ 0.31 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
4.94 pp
peak 7.90 % in 2020
Full series
▲ 0.53 pp
since 2000

In Americas: #4 of 27vs median 5.25 %: −2.29 pp (better)

Among 124 countries

6 of 124 countries between 0.78 % and 1.53 %6 of 124 countries between 1.53 % and 2.28 %12 of 124 countries between 2.28 % and 3.03 %16 of 124 countries between 3.03 % and 3.78 %7 of 124 countries between 3.78 % and 4.53 %15 of 124 countries between 4.53 % and 5.28 %14 of 124 countries between 5.28 % and 6.02 %7 of 124 countries between 6.02 % and 6.77 %6 of 124 countries between 6.77 % and 7.52 %2 of 124 countries between 7.52 % and 8.27 %10 of 124 countries between 8.27 % and 9.02 %3 of 124 countries between 9.02 % and 9.77 %3 of 124 countries between 9.77 % and 10.52 %2 of 124 countries between 10.52 % and 11.27 %3 of 124 countries between 11.27 % and 12.02 %1 of 124 countries between 12.02 % and 12.77 %1 of 124 countries between 12.77 % and 13.51 %2 of 124 countries between 13.51 % and 14.26 %1 of 124 countries between 14.26 % and 15.01 %2 of 124 countries between 15.01 % and 15.76 %1 of 124 countries between 16.51 % and 17.26 %4 of 124 countries between 18.01 % and 18.76 %median 5.23 %Bolivia: ahead of 82 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentBolivia 2.97 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Bolivia is ahead of 82 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Bolivia
20 Czech Republic2.83 %−0.14 pp
21 Malta2.90 %−0.07 pp
22 Bolivia2.97 %—
23 Poland2.98 %+0.01 pp
24 Ghana2.98 %+0.01 pp

Unemployment, share of the labour force (World Bank / ILO estimate).

How to read this figure

Share of the labour force without work but actively seeking it (World Bank / ILO harmonised estimate). People outside the labour force — students, carers, the discouraged — are not counted.

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