Official data
Panama: unemployment by year, 2000–2025
Unemployment rate, % of the labor force
Latest year, 2025: 10.4%
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare the unemployment rate since 2000 across Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, and Dominican Republic.
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 | 10.4 |
| 2024 | 9.5 |
| 2023 | 7.4 |
| 2022 | 9.9 |
| 2021 | 11.3 |
| 2020 | 18.5 |
| 2019 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2017 | 6.1 |
| 2016 | 5.5 |
| 2015 | 5.1 |
| 2014 | 4.8 |
| 2013 | 4.1 |
| 2012 | 4.1 |
| 2011 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 6.5 |
| 2009 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 5.6 |
| 2007 | 6.4 |
| 2006 | 8.7 |
| 2005 | 9.8 |
| 2004 | 11.7 |
| 2003 | 13 |
| 2002 | 13.5 |
| 2001 | 14 |
| 2000 | 13.5 |