# Argentina Unemployment Rate

Argentina Unemployment Rate was 7.9% in Q2 2026, up 0.1 percentage points from Q1 2026 and up 0.3 percentage points from a year earlier.
That is the highest reading since Q1 2025.
Among the 53 economies Makrognosis covers on this measure, it is the 10th highest.
Over the past ten years it has ranged from 5.7% (Q4 2023) to 13.1% (Q2 2020), averaging 8.3%.

- Source agency: INDEC
- Makrognosis code: `AR.UNEMP.Q.NSA`
- Frequency: quarterly
- Units: %
- Coverage: 2003-01-01 to 2026-04-01 (92 observations)
- Page: https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/data/argentina/unemployment-rate

## Recent data

| Period | Value |
|---|---:|
| Q2 2026 | 7.9% |
| Q1 2026 | 7.8% |
| Q4 2025 | 7.5% |
| Q3 2025 | 6.6% |
| Q2 2025 | 7.6% |
| Q1 2025 | 7.9% |
| Q4 2024 | 6.4% |
| Q3 2024 | 6.9% |
| Q2 2024 | 7.6% |
| Q1 2024 | 7.7% |
| Q4 2023 | 5.7% |
| Q3 2023 | 5.7% |
| Q2 2023 | 6.2% |
| Q1 2023 | 6.9% |
| Q4 2022 | 6.3% |
| Q3 2022 | 7.1% |
| Q2 2022 | 6.9% |
| Q1 2022 | 7.0% |
| Q4 2021 | 7.0% |
| Q3 2021 | 8.2% |
| Q2 2021 | 9.6% |
| Q1 2021 | 10.2% |
| Q4 2020 | 11.0% |
| Q3 2020 | 11.7% |

## API

```
curl -H "X-API-Key: $MAKROGNOSIS_KEY" \
  "https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/AR.UNEMP.Q.NSA"

# Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/AR.UNEMP.Q.NSA",
                 headers={"X-API-Key": KEY})
obs = r.json()["observations"]
```