El Salvador vs South Korea: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

El Salvador
2.7%
in 2024
South Korea
2.8%
in 2025
El Salvador rank
153rd
South Korea rank
150th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

  • El Salvador
  • South Korea
051015196919972025

How they compare

South Korea currently reports 2.8% against 2.7% in El Salvador, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 41 shared years of data; in 1978 it was El Salvador ahead.

El Salvador ranks 153rd and South Korea ranks 150th of 185 countries.

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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

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.