LatinNews Daily - 06 March 2026

In brief: Costa Rica’s unemployment edges up in quarterly terms

Central America & Caribbean by Lewis Harrison 06 March 2026 Modified: 06 March 2026 1220 views

*Costa Rica’s national statistics institute (Inec) has released new figures showing that the unemployment rate for the November 2025-January 2026 rolling quarter was 6.6%. This is up from 6.3% in the previous rolling quarter but down from 7.0% in the same period a year earlier. In absolute terms, the unemployed population in the November 2025-January 2026 rolling quarter was 154,000 people, of whom 92,000 were men and 63,000 were women.

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