Key data points
Last release
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Observation period
May 2025
Next release
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Forecast
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Highest
16.50 % on Sep 30, 2020
Lowest
5.60 % on Nov 30, 2014
About Peru unemployment rate
In Peru, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labor force.
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Frequently Asked Questions
To calculate Peru 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 Peru unemployment rate is 5.60%.
The highest figure Peru unemployment rate has ever reached is 16.50%.
Last month Peru unemployment rate was 5.90%, and the month before it reached 6.60%.