Puerto Rico Unemployment Rate

Unemployment Rate in Puerto Rico increased to 9 percent in October from 8.20 percent in September of 2019. Unemployment Rate in Puerto Rico averaged 14.86 percent from 1976 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 25.30 percent in January of 1983 and a record low of 7 percent in August of 2019.

Unemployment Rate in Puerto Rico is expected to be 8.70 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Unemployment Rate in Puerto Rico to stand at 8.30 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the Puerto Rico Unemployment Rate is projected to trend around 7.60 percent in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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Puerto Rico Labour	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Unemployment Rate	9.00	8.20	25.30	7.00	percent	[+]
Population	3.26	3.37	3.83	2.36	Million	[+]
Unemployed Persons	95.00	87.00	226.00	76.00	Thousand	[+]
Labor Force Participation Rate	40.50	40.40	49.80	38.50	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Payrolls	73.50	73.40	161.60	68.70	Thousand	[+]
Non Farm Payrolls	873.60	872.40	1100.80	622.40	Thousand	[+]
Government Payrolls	203.30	202.90	401.90	199.20	Thousand	[+]
Employed Persons	967.00	975.00	1301.00	929.00	Thousand	[+]
Employment Rate	36.80	37.10	44.70	33.50	percent	[+]

Puerto Rico, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force. This page provides the latest reported value for - Puerto Rico Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. Puerto Rico Unemployment Rate - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on December of 2019.

	Actual	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Dates	Unit	Frequency
	9.00	8.20	25.30	7.00	1976 - 2019	percent	Monthly	NSA

Country	Last		Previous	Range
South Africa	29.10	Sep/19	29	30.4 : 21.5	%
Turkey	14.00	Aug/19	13.9	14.8 : 7.3	%
Spain	13.92	Sep/19	14.02	26.94 : 4.41	%
Brazil	11.60	Oct/19	11.8	13.7 : 6.2	%
Argentina	10.60	Jun/19	10.1	20.8 : 5.9	%
Italy	9.70	Oct/19	9.9	13.1 : 5.8	%
France	8.60	Sep/19	8.5	10.7 : 7.2	%
India	8.50	Oct/19	7.2	8.5 : 6.7	%
Euro Area	7.50	Oct/19	7.6	12.1 : 7.3	%
Canada	5.90	Nov/19	5.5	13.1 : 2.9	%
Saudi Arabia	5.60	Jun/19	5.7	6.3 : 4.35	%
Australia	5.30	Oct/19	5.2	11.2 : 4	%
Indonesia	5.28	Sep/19	5.01	11.24 : 2	%
Russia	4.60	Oct/19	4.5	14.1 : 4.3	%
United Kingdom	3.80	Sep/19	3.9	12 : 3.4	%
China	3.61	Sep/19	3.61	4.3 : 3.61	%
Mexico	3.60	Oct/19	3.8	6.42 : 2.22	%
South Korea	3.60	Nov/19	3.5	7.1 : 3	%
Netherlands	3.50	Oct/19	3.5	7.9 : 3.3	%
United States	3.50	Nov/19	3.6	10.8 : 2.5	%
Germany	3.10	Oct/19	3.1	11.5 : 0.4	%
Japan	2.40	Oct/19	2.4	5.5 : 1	%
Singapore	2.30	Sep/19	2.2	6 : 1.4	%
Switzerland	2.30	Nov/19	2.2	5.7 : 1.5	%