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Costa Rica: unemployed people by quarter
Continuous Employment Survey since Q3 2010: unemployed people by sex, age, education and duration of job search.
Quick read
Between Jul 2010 and Apr 2026, the series decreased 7.7% (177,415 → 163,690). The largest point-to-point change was +237,220, from Jan 2020 to Apr 2020.
Source and scope
Quarterly unemployment by sex, age and education
Costa Rica · Macro indicators
Weighted estimates of people, not rates or individual records. Totals overlap with profiles. Error and confidence-interval tables are excluded from the estimates.