ACS Unemployment Table of Contents
Total Unemployment (% of labour force)
Country/Region 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Antigua and Barbuda 7.00 6.00 11 ...
Dominica 23.10 ...
Grenada 15.2 12.5 11.00 13.00 ...
St. Kitts and Nevis 15.20 5.00 ...
St.Lucia 20.50 21.60 17.50 18.90 ...
St. Vincent and Grenadines 19.80 ...
OECS          
The Bahamas 9.80 7.80 7.80 6.9 ...
Barbados 12.30 10.40 9.30 10.00 10.50
Belize 12.70 14.30 12.80 11.50 9.10
Guyana 11.90 11.70 ...
Haiti 65.00 52.00 55.00 ...
Jamaica 15.50 15.7 15.50 14.80 15.00
Suriname 10.60 14.00 16.00  
Trinidad and Tobago 14.20 13.20 12.20 10.70 11.00
CARICOM          
Costa Rica 5.40 6.20 6.00 5.80 6.80
El Salvador 7.30 7.00 6.50 7.00 7.10
Guatemala 3.80 ...
Honduras 3.90 3.70 3.50 3.30 6.20
Nicaragua      13.30 10.90 9.80 10.70 12.90
CACM          
Cuba 6.60 6.00 5.50 4.50 3.50
Dominican Republic 13.8 13.9 15.20 15.20 16.10
Panama 13.60 11.80 15.20 16.60 16.10
Non-Grouped          
Colombia 15.70 18.00 19.50 16.40 17.60
Mexico 2.30 1.70 2.20 2.40 2.70
Venezuela 11.20 14.90 13.20 13.00 15.90
G-3          
Aruba 7.4 2.8 4.40 5.9 6
Netherlands Antilles 16.60 16.70 16.64 17.04 ...
Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles          
French Guiana 21.4
Guadeloupe 27.8
Martinique 27.20 26.30
French Departments          
Rest of Latin America
Country 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Argentina 12.80 14.10 15.00 18.30 19.70
Bolivia 12.62 17.89 7.6 7.40        9.70
Brazil 6.30 6.30 4.80 4.00 7.10
Chile 6.40 9.90 9.20 9.10 9.00
Ecuador 11.80 15.10 10.30 8.10 8.60
Paraguay 6.60 9.40        8.60 10.00      18.20
Peru        7.80        8.00        7.40        8.90        9.40
Uruguay      10.10      11.30      13.60      15.10      17.00
Source: Member States' Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Central Banks and National Statistical Offices
Note:         data not available