Desempleo en Colombia volvió a bajar: se ubica en 8,2% para octubre, jalonado por la informalidad laboral
El Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística, Dane, dio a conocer que para octubre de 2025 la tasa de desocupación laboral volvió a bajar, s...
TL;DR
- Unemployment rate decreased to 8.2% in October 2025, down 0.9 percentage points year-over-year.
- Informal employment accounted for about 75% of the 977,000 new jobs.
- The national informality rate was 56.1%.
- Medellín reported one of the lowest unemployment rates in its metropolitan area at 6.9% for the August-October 2025 quarter.
- Agriculture, livestock, hunting, forestry, and fishing saw the largest increase in occupied population (+347,000).
- Unemployment among women (10.9%) remains significantly higher than among men (6.2%).
- Cities like Quibdó (23.9%), Sincelejo (12.3%), and Riohacha (12.2%) still face high unemployment rates.