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Unemployment rate in Puerto Rico

How hard is it to have a job there?

Puerto Rico's unemployment rate is 5.99 % — #75 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

5.99%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

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

Unemployment rate in Puerto Rico over time

16.10 %10.87 %5.64 %16.10 % · 20105.64 % · 20242000: 10.08 %2001: 11.40 %2002: 11.94 %2003: 11.78 %2004: 10.31 %2005: 11.35 %2006: 11.01 %2007: 10.93 %2008: 11.48 %2009: 15.00 %2010: 16.10 %2011: 15.70 %2012: 14.50 %2013: 14.30 %2014: 13.90 %2015: 12.00 %2016: 11.80 %2017: 10.80 %2018: 9.20 %2019: 8.30 %2020: 8.89 %2021: 7.90 %2022: 6.00 %2023: 5.72 %2024: 5.64 %2025: 5.99 %2000201220255.99 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#75 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
40 %
49 of 124 countries
Latest move
▲ 0.35 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
10.11 pp
peak 16.10 % in 2010
Full series
▼ 4.09 pp
since 2000

In Americas: #14 of 27vs median 5.25 %: +0.74 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 %Puerto Rico: ahead of 40 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentPuerto Rico 5.99 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Puerto Rico is ahead of 40 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Puerto Rico
73 Zambia5.92 %−0.07 pp
74 Brazil5.97 %−0.02 pp
75 Puerto Rico5.99 %—
76 Romania5.99 %+0.00 pp
77 Portugal6.16 %+0.17 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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