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

Costa Rica

6.3%

in 2025

Romania

6.1%

in 2025

Costa Rica rank

71st

Romania rank

74th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

Costa Rica
Romania

How they compare

Costa Rica currently reports 6.3% against 6.1% in Romania, a difference of 0.2%.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 33 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Romania ahead.

Costa Rica ranks 71st and Romania ranks 74th of 185 countries.

Individual pages

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Costa Rica
Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Romania
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.