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Honduras — Unemployment
Unemployment Rate for Honduras, 1991–2025.
Latest value · 2025
4.92%
Unemployment Rate · % of total labor force · +7.4% since 1991
Unemployment for Honduras was 4.92% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 35 years, from 1991 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 10.98% in 2020. The lowest was 3.06% in 1992 (about 1.6× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.21% per year.
Honduras ranks 104 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 56%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 5.99%, so Honduras sits below it. It peaked in 2020 and has fallen 55% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 20%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
4.92%
First (1991)
4.58%
Change
+7.4%
Highest
10.98%
in 2020
Lowest
3.06%
in 1992
Average
4.94%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.21%
Years of data
35
Recent years
| Year | % of total labor force |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.92% |
| 2024 | 4.91% |
| 2023 | 6.07% |
| 2022 | 8.77% |
| 2021 | 8.51% |
| 2020 | 10.98% |
| 2019 | 5.7% |
| 2018 | 5.65% |
| 2017 | 5.53% |
| 2016 | 6.73% |
| 2015 | 6.15% |
| 2014 | 7.08% |
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.