Barbados vs Belgium: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

Barbados

6.0%

in 2024

Belgium

6.2%

in 2025

Barbados rank

76th

Belgium rank

73rd

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

Barbados
Belgium

How they compare

Belgium currently reports 6.2% against 6.0% in Barbados, a difference of 0.2%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 41 shared years of data; in 1976 it was Barbados ahead.

Barbados ranks 76th and Belgium ranks 73rd of 185 countries.

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Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Barbados
Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Belgium
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About this data

Indicator: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates
Unit: %
Source: Labour Force Statistics, via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 185 places, 5,169 data points, 1960–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Share of the labor force without work, but actively looking for a job and available to start soon. Figures refer to national estimates and may not be fully comparable across countries.