Argentina: open unemployment rate by age 2022

Between 2000 and 2022, the youngest cohorts of the urban economically active population in Argentina had the highest unemployment rates. In the case of people whose age ranged from 15 to 24 years old, the unemployment rate stood at 19.7 percent in 2022, falling from 30.3 percent two years earlier. By contrast, among those aged 45 years and older, the urban open unemployment rate was four percent in 2022. Argentinians with more years of schooling also have the lowest open unemployment rate.

Urban open unemployment rate in Argentina in the from 2000 to 2022, by age group

Characteristic	15 to 24 years	25 to 34 years	35 to 44 years	45 years and over
2022	19.7%	7%	3.9%	4%
2021	21.4%	9.3%	4.8%	4%
2020	30.3%	11.9%	6.7%	7.8%
2019	24.8%	10.1%	6.4%	5.4%
2018	22.5%	10.1%	5.8%	5.6%
2017	21.5%	7.5%	5.3%	4.2%
2016	22.8%	7.8%	4.5%	3.8%
2014	19%	7.7%	4.3%	3.8%
2013	18.7%	6.8%	3.9%	3.2%
2012	18.4%	7.3%	4.9%	4%
2011	19.3%	6.7%	4%	4%
2010	19.5%	6.6%	4.7%	4.4%
2009	21.4%	8.1%	5.4%	5.7%
2008	17%	7%	4.8%	4.6%
2007	16.5%	6.9%	4.9%	5.3%
2006	21.6%	6.7%	5.3%	5.7%
2005	23.6%	8.8%	5.4%	7.1%
2004	26.5%	10.6%	7.4%	8.4%
2003	31.4%	12.8%	8.8%	10%
2002	31.2%	13.9%	13.9%	11.3%
2001	29.9%	16.2%	11.8%	12.4%
2000	25.2%	11.3%	8.9%	9.6%

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Release date

December 2023

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Region

Argentina

Survey time period

2000 to 2022

Special properties

urban areas

Supplementary notes

This indicator considers that the unemployed urban population includes those who have not worked but have looked for an employment and whose have looked for a work by first time within the urban economically active population aged 15 years and over.
No data available for the year 2015.

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