Cyprus vs Iceland: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

Cyprus

4.4%

in 2025

Iceland

4.5%

in 2025

Cyprus rank

115th

Iceland rank

112th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

Cyprus
Iceland

How they compare

Iceland currently reports 4.5% against 4.4% in Cyprus, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 36 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Cyprus ahead.

Cyprus ranks 115th and Iceland ranks 112th of 185 countries.

Individual pages

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Cyprus
Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Iceland
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.