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Unemployment rate in Cyprus

How hard is it to have a job there?

Cyprus's unemployment rate is 4.92 % — #55 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

4.92%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

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

Unemployment rate in Cyprus over time

16.28 %9.81 %3.34 %16.28 % · 20143.34 % · 20022000: 4.77 %2001: 4.04 %2002: 3.34 %2003: 4.15 %2004: 4.77 %2005: 5.48 %2006: 4.59 %2007: 3.95 %2008: 3.76 %2009: 5.59 %2010: 6.36 %2011: 7.94 %2012: 12.10 %2013: 16.13 %2014: 16.28 %2015: 15.03 %2016: 13.01 %2017: 11.15 %2018: 8.50 %2019: 7.16 %2020: 7.75 %2021: 7.51 %2022: 6.81 %2023: 5.83 %2024: 4.90 %2025: 4.92 %2000201220254.92 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#55 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
56 %
69 of 124 countries
Latest move
▲ 0.02 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
11.35 pp
peak 16.28 % in 2014
Full series
▲ 0.16 pp
since 2000

In Europe: #16 of 36vs median 5.25 %: −0.33 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 %Cyprus: ahead of 56 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentCyprus 4.92 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Cyprus is ahead of 56 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Cyprus
53 Switzerland4.87 %−0.05 pp
54 Honduras4.92 %−0.00 pp
55 Cyprus4.92 %—
56 Croatia5.00 %+0.08 pp
57 Nicaragua5.04 %+0.12 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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