Official data
Colombia: unemployment by year, 2000–2025
Unemployment rate, % of the labor force
Latest year, 2025: 8%
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare the unemployment rate since 2000 across Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Mexico.
Method
Official annual series (2000–2025), read directly from the source without adjustments and plotted as published.
- Read. Reads series LUR directly as published by the source.
- Period. Keeps one value per year, 2000 to 2025.
- Chart. Draws the series as a line and marks the latest year.
- The most recent years can be IMF estimates.
- Source
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Dataset
- World Economic Outlook (October 2026)
- Series code
- LUR
Read from the Belo Lake on November 8, 2026.
Data
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 |
| 2024 | 9.1 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2022 | 10.3 |
| 2021 | 11.1 |
| 2020 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 9.9 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2017 | 8.9 |
| 2016 | 9.1 |
| 2015 | 8.8 |
| 2014 | 9 |
| 2013 | 8.6 |
| 2012 | 9.9 |
| 2011 | 10.1 |
| 2010 | 11.2 |
| 2009 | 11.3 |
| 2008 | 11.3 |
| 2007 | 11.2 |
| 2006 | 12 |
| 2005 | 11.8 |
| 2004 | 13.7 |
| 2003 | 14.1 |
| 2002 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 15 |
| 2000 | 13.3 |