Colombia: unemployment rate by gender and education 2021

Unemployment rate for women in Colombia was generally higher compared to that of men with the same educational attainments. In 2021, women with upper secondary education had an unemployment rate of 24.4 percent, whereas unemployment among men having achieved the same educational level was at 17.5 percent. Even women with a graduate degree were more likely to be unemployed than men.

Unemployment rate in Colombia in 2021, by gender and highest degree earned

Characteristic	Men	Women
None	6.2%	9.8%
Primary education	9.7%	16.7%
Lower secondary education	13.3%	21.3%
Upper secondary education	17.5%	24.4%
Technical education	13.5%	20.1%
Technological education	13.7%	17.9%
Undergraduate degree	11.2%	13.2%
Graduate degree	4.5%	5.2%

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Release date

September 2022

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Region

Colombia

Survey time period

2021

Supplementary notes

Colombia's basic education cycle consists of:
Pre-school education,
Five years of primary or elementary schooling,
Four years of lower secondary education,
Two years of upper secondary education.

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