Paraguay Unemployment Rate
Unemployment rate by quarter
Green: everyone 15 and over. Orange: 15 to 24-year-olds.
Next to the world
The International Labour Organization estimates every country's rate the same way, so these two can be compared. For 2025:
What the unemployment rate counts
It is the share of the labour force that has no work, is available to work, and is looking for work. People who have stopped looking are not in it, and neither are people working fewer hours than they want.
Whose figure this is
This is what Paraguay's own labour force survey measured, as the International Labour Organization publishes it. Paraguay's statistics office may headline a different number: it can count or adjust in its own way. Figures by quarter can move with the seasons, and recent ones are sometimes revised.
Source: International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT (CC BY 4.0), last read October 24, 2026. For the United States see the US unemployment rate, from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.