About Costa Rica Unemployment Rate
In Costa Rica, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.
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To calculate Costa Rica 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 Costa Rica Unemployment Rate is 7.30%.
The highest figure Costa Rica Unemployment Rate has ever reached is 24.00%.
Last quarter Costa Rica Unemployment Rate was 7.30%, and the quarter before that it amounted to 8.10%.