Jamaica vs Malta: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

Jamaica

3.0%

in 2023

Malta

3.1%

in 2025

Jamaica rank

146th

Malta rank

144th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

Jamaica
Malta

How they compare

Malta currently reports 3.1% against 3.0% in Jamaica, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 39 shared years of data; in 1983 it was Jamaica ahead.

Jamaica ranks 146th and Malta ranks 144th of 185 countries.

Individual pages

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Jamaica
Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Malta
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.