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Unemployment rate in Chile

How hard is it to have a job there?

Chile's unemployment rate is 8.97 % — #100 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

8.97%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

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

Unemployment rate in Chile over time

11.31 %8.84 %6.36 %11.31 % · 20096.36 % · 20132000: 10.49 %2001: 10.39 %2002: 10.17 %2003: 9.77 %2004: 10.16 %2005: 9.34 %2006: 9.02 %2007: 8.43 %2008: 9.29 %2009: 11.31 %2010: 8.55 %2011: 7.49 %2012: 6.79 %2013: 6.36 %2014: 6.76 %2015: 6.61 %2016: 6.93 %2017: 7.26 %2018: 7.62 %2019: 7.49 %2020: 10.93 %2021: 9.28 %2022: 8.25 %2023: 9.01 %2024: 8.72 %2025: 8.97 %2000201220258.97 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#100 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
19 %
24 of 124 countries
Latest move
▲ 0.26 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
2.34 pp
peak 11.31 % in 2009
Full series
▼ 1.52 pp
since 2000

In Americas: #24 of 27vs median 5.25 %: +3.72 pp (worse)

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 %Chile: ahead of 19 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentChile 8.97 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Chile is ahead of 19 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Chile
98 Sweden8.69 %−0.28 pp
99 Belize8.86 %−0.12 pp
100 Chile8.97 %—
101 Morocco9.00 %+0.03 pp
102 Bahamas9.21 %+0.23 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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