Official data
Nicaragua: unemployment by year, 2000–2025
Unemployment rate, % of the labor force
Latest year, 2025: 2.7%
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare the unemployment rate since 2000 across Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, and United States.
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 | 2.7 |
| 2024 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 3.4 |
| 2022 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 4.8 |
| 2019 | 4.9 |
| 2018 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 3.3 |
| 2016 | 3.8 |
| 2015 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 6.6 |
| 2013 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 5.9 |
| 2011 | 5.9 |
| 2010 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 6.1 |
| 2007 | 5.9 |
| 2006 | 5.2 |
| 2005 | 5.6 |
| 2004 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 7 |
| 2002 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 6.4 |
| 2000 | 9.8 |