Peru - Unemployment Rate

The National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) reports annual labor force statistics for Peru and its departments. The dataset includes economically active population, employed population, unemployed population, unemployment rate, and share employed by industry.

• Classification: ISIC Rev. 4
• Measurement:
• Thousands of persons (Ths. #)
• Percentage (%)
• Percentage of total employment (%)
• Adjustment: Not applicable
• Native frequency: Annual
• Concepts: 14
• Geos:
• National
• Departments (IPER_^^^^)
• Capital: Province and region of Lima (IPER_LIM and IPER_LXLI)
• Do all concept-geos exist? Yes

Data is available for Peru and its 25 departments. INEI also provides data for the Province of Lima and the Region of Lima.

Employment data is broken down by brances of activity (ISIC Rev. 4) as a percentage of the total number of employed people.

Further reading

At the source:

• Informe de empleo

At IMF (SDDS):

• Labor market: Employment
• Labor market: Unemployment