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Unemployment rate in Trinidad and Tobago

How hard is it to have a job there?

Trinidad and Tobago's unemployment rate is 3.33 % — #34 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

3.33%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

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

Unemployment rate in Trinidad and Tobago over time

12.10 %7.26 %2.43 %12.10 % · 20002.43 % · 20152000: 12.10 %2001: 10.88 %2002: 10.39 %2003: 10.48 %2004: 8.33 %2005: 7.95 %2006: 6.27 %2007: 5.54 %2008: 4.63 %2009: 5.28 %2010: 4.03 %2011: 3.42 %2012: 3.72 %2013: 2.68 %2014: 2.48 %2015: 2.43 %2016: 3.21 %2017: 3.39 %2018: 3.50 %2019: 3.52 %2020: 4.21 %2021: 4.45 %2022: 4.38 %2023: 3.36 %2024: 3.32 %2025: 3.33 %2000201220253.33 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#34 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
73 %
90 of 124 countries
Latest move
▲ 0.01 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
8.77 pp
peak 12.10 % in 2000
Full series
▼ 8.77 pp
since 2000

In Americas: #7 of 27vs median 5.25 %: −1.93 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 %Trinidad and Tobago: ahead of 73 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentTrinidad and Tobago 3.33 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Trinidad and Tobago is ahead of 73 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Trinidad and Tobago
32 Ecuador3.31 %−0.02 pp
33 Ethiopia3.32 %−0.01 pp
34 Trinidad and Tobago3.33 %—
35 Belarus3.38 %+0.05 pp
36 Israel3.49 %+0.16 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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