Latvia vs Serbia: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

Latvia
6.9%
in 2025
Serbia
7.3%
in 2025
Latvia rank
65th
Serbia rank
62nd

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

  • Latvia
  • Serbia
510152025199520102025

How they compare

Serbia currently reports 7.3% against 6.9% in Latvia, a difference of 0.4%.

That makes Serbia's figure about 1.1 times Latvia's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 30 shared years of data; in 1996 it was Latvia ahead.

Latvia ranks 65th and Serbia ranks 62nd 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.