Guam vs Puerto Rico: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

Guam

5.4%

in 2016

Puerto Rico

5.6%

in 2025

Guam rank

89th

Puerto Rico rank

87th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

Guam
Puerto Rico

How they compare

Puerto Rico currently reports 5.6% against 5.4% in Guam, a difference of 0.2%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 41 shared years of data; in 1974 it was Puerto Rico ahead.

Guam ranks 89th and Puerto Rico ranks 87th of 185 countries.

Individual pages

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Guam
Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Puerto Rico
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.