Official data
El Salvador: unemployment by year, 2000–2025
Unemployment rate, % of the labor force
Latest year, 2025: 4.2%
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare the unemployment rate since 2000 across El Salvador, 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 | 4.2 |
| 2024 | 4.7 |
| 2023 | 5.2 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2021 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 7 |
| 2019 | 6.5 |
| 2018 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 7.2 |
| 2016 | 7.1 |
| 2015 | 7.1 |
| 2014 | 7.1 |
| 2013 | 6 |
| 2012 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 6.7 |
| 2010 | 7.1 |
| 2009 | 7.4 |
| 2008 | 6 |
| 2007 | 6.4 |
| 2006 | 6.7 |
| 2005 | 7.3 |
| 2004 | 6.9 |
| 2003 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 6.4 |
| 2001 | 7.1 |
| 2000 | 6.8 |