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Jobs & cost of living · Curaçao

For recent grads: how easy it is to find work, how good the jobs are, what they pay and what life costs.

Grad view

Curaçao
Youth unemployment
16.0 % · 2025
Recent-grad employment
no data
Average wage (PPP)
no data
Price level
79 USA = 100 · 2021
Housing squeeze
no data
Latest CW
Unemployment rate %5.12025
Youth unemployment, 15–24 %16.02025
Unemployment, 25–29 %5.12025
Unemployment with a degree %10.62020
Not in employment, education or training (NEET) %17.52020
Price level of household consumption USA = 100792021

Unemployment

Unemployment rate

monthly where available · %
Source: Central Bureau of Statistics Curaçao (CBS Curaçao)

Youth unemployment, 15–24

US 16–24 · %
Source: Central Bureau of Statistics Curaçao (CBS Curaçao)

Unemployment, 25–29

CW 25–34 · US 20–24 · %
Source: Central Bureau of Statistics Curaçao (CBS Curaçao)

Unemployment with a degree

advanced education · US bachelor’s, 25–34 · %
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0

Graduates

Not in employment, education or training (NEET)

EU 15–29 · elsewhere 15–24 · %
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0

Cost of living

Price level of household consumption

how expensive life is at market exchange rates, USA = 100 · USA = 100
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0

Not available for Curaçao: Job vacancy rate, Job openings per unemployed person, Long-term unemployed (1 year +), Quits rate, Employment rate of recent graduates, Employment rate, tertiary-educated 25–34, Graduate earnings premium, Temporary contracts, Temporary contracts, 15–24, Part-time work, Hours worked per worker, per year, Very long hours (50 h + a week), Usual weekly hours, full-time job, Average annual wage, Median full-time wage (approx.), Real wage growth, Minimum wage, hourly, Minimum wage vs median wage, Minimum wage, monthly (EU), Price level now (OECD, monthly), Price level of household consumption (EU27 = 100), Price level: food (EU27 = 100), Price level: housing, water, energy (EU27 = 100), Price level: transport (EU27 = 100), Price level: restaurants and hotels (EU27 = 100), Big Mac price, House price-to-income, House price-to-rent, Rents, Housing cost overburden, aged 25–29, Still living with their parents, 25–29.

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