Portugal vs Romania: Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates

Portugal

6.0%

in 2025

Romania

6.1%

in 2025

Portugal rank

77th

Romania rank

74th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

Portugal
Romania

How they compare

Romania currently reports 6.1% against 6.0% in Portugal, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 33 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Romania ahead.

Portugal ranks 77th and Romania ranks 74th of 185 countries.

Individual pages

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Portugal
Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates in Romania
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.