Belgium vs Costa Rica: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

Belgium

6.2%

in 2025

Costa Rica

6.3%

in 2025

Belgium rank

73rd

Costa Rica rank

71st

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

Belgium
Costa Rica

How they compare

Costa Rica currently reports 6.3% against 6.2% in Belgium, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 36 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Belgium ahead.

Belgium ranks 73rd and Costa Rica ranks 71st of 185 countries.

Individual pages

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Belgium
Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Costa Rica
Full country ranking

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.