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

Puerto Rico

5.6%

in 2025

Zambia

5.7%

in 2024

Puerto Rico rank

87th

Zambia rank

86th

Unemployment rates: modeled vs. national estimates over time

Puerto Rico
Zambia

How they compare

Zambia currently reports 5.7% against 5.6% in Puerto Rico, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 20 shared years of data; in 1986 it was Puerto Rico ahead.

Puerto Rico ranks 87th and Zambia ranks 86th of 185 countries.

Individual pages

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