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Haiti — Unemployment
Unemployment Rate for Haiti, 1991–2025.
Latest value · 2025
14.94%
Unemployment Rate · % of total labor force · +103.9% since 1991
Unemployment for Haiti was 14.94% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 35 years, from 1991 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 16.80% in 2007. The lowest was 7.00% in 1997 (about 2.1× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 2.12% per year.
Haiti ranks 17 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 9%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 5.99%, so Haiti sits above it. It peaked in 2007 and has fallen 11% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 8%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
14.94%
First (1991)
7.33%
Change
+103.9%
Highest
16.80%
in 2007
Lowest
7.00%
in 1997
Average
12.29%
Annual growth (CAGR)
2.12%
Years of data
35
Recent years
| Year | % of total labor force |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 14.94% |
| 2024 | 14.61% |
| 2023 | 14.46% |
| 2022 | 14.54% |
| 2021 | 15.3% |
| 2020 | 15.57% |
| 2019 | 14.1% |
| 2018 | 13.93% |
| 2017 | 13.93% |
| 2016 | 13.9% |
| 2015 | 13.79% |
| 2014 | 13.81% |
Reading this correctly. Share of the labor force without work but available for and seeking employment. National definitions differ, so cross-country comparison needs care. Figures are in % of total labor force. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS — Unemployment Rate. Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.