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Colombia’s Unemployment Rate Dropped in May
Colombia’s unemployment rate dropped to 9% in May, down 1.3 percentage points from the same month in 2024, when it stood at 10.3%. This translates to nearly 300,000 fewer unemployed people over the past year. Despite global economic uncertainty and domestic market challenges, unemployment has reached its lowest level in years. However, labor informality remains the biggest hurdle facing the country’s job market. The transportation and storage se…
Colombia recorded a 9.0 percent unemployment rate in May 2025, representing a significant decrease compared to the 10.3 percent reported in the same month of 2024. This is the lowest level for a month of May since 2001, according to the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE). Andrea Ramírez Pisco, deputy director of DANE, highlighted in a press conference the importance of this figure, confirming that the unemployment rate in Co…
By March-May 2025, the unemployment rate in the city was 9.6 percent.
Unemployment in Colombia fell to 9% in May, but 13 million work in informality Agency Period... Sat, 28/06/2025 - 13:17 Dane reveals that more than half of those occupied in Colombia are informal.
The labor market in Colombia closed in May with a slight improvement in its main indicators, with an unemployment rate of 9%.
Although the national unemployment rate reached 9%, informality was 55% in May.
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