Key data points
Last release
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Observation period
Jan 2025
Next release
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Forecast
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Highest
21.01 % on May 31, 2020
Lowest
7.33 % on Nov 30, 2015
About Colombia unemployment rate
In Colombia, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.
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Frequently Asked Questions
To calculate Colombia unemployment rate you need to take the number of the country residents without a job and looking for work divided by the total number of residents in the labor force.
The lowest ever Colombia unemployment rate is 7.33%.
The highest figure Colombia unemployment rate has ever reached is 21.01%.
Last month Colombia unemployment rate was 11.64%, and the month before it reached 9.13%.