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Unemployment rate in El Salvador

How hard is it to have a job there?

El Salvador's unemployment rate is 3.30 % — #31 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

3.30%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

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

Unemployment rate in El Salvador over time

7.33 %5.16 %2.99 %7.33 % · 20092.99 % · 20232000: 6.96 %2001: 6.96 %2002: 6.20 %2003: 6.90 %2004: 6.80 %2005: 7.22 %2006: 6.57 %2007: 6.41 %2008: 5.88 %2009: 7.33 %2010: 4.89 %2011: 4.30 %2012: 3.84 %2013: 3.69 %2014: 4.15 %2015: 4.00 %2016: 4.42 %2017: 4.38 %2018: 4.01 %2019: 4.17 %2020: 5.01 %2021: 4.33 %2022: 3.00 %2023: 2.99 %2024: 3.26 %2025: 3.30 %2000201220253.30 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#31 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
75 %
93 of 124 countries
Latest move
▲ 0.04 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
4.03 pp
peak 7.33 % in 2009
Full series
▼ 3.66 pp
since 2000

In Americas: #5 of 27vs median 5.25 %: −1.95 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 %El Salvador: ahead of 75 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentEl Salvador 3.30 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. El Salvador is ahead of 75 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs El Salvador
29 Slovenia3.17 %−0.13 pp
30 Indonesia3.24 %−0.07 pp
31 El Salvador3.30 %—
32 Ecuador3.31 %+0.00 pp
33 Ethiopia3.32 %+0.02 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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