Cyprus vs Sri Lanka: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

Cyprus

4.4%

in 2025

Sri Lanka

4.3%

in 2024

Cyprus rank

115th

Sri Lanka rank

118th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

Cyprus
Sri Lanka

How they compare

Cyprus currently reports 4.4% against 4.3% in Sri Lanka, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 36 shared years of data; in 1981 it was Sri Lanka ahead.

Cyprus ranks 115th and Sri Lanka ranks 118th of 185 countries.

Individual pages

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Cyprus
Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Sri Lanka
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.