cuba - Youth Unemployment Rate for Cuba was 3.87% in January of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, cuba - Youth Unemployment Rate for Cuba reached a record high of 4.94 in January of 2021 and a record low of 3.87 in January of 2024. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for cuba - Youth Unemployment Rate for Cuba - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

During a 2024 survey, around 19 percent of the Cuban population had a monthly income lower than 67 U.S. dollars, and only 21 percent had an income higher than 417 USD. During that same survey, 61 percent of the respondents stated that they struggle to buy the necessary means to survive. Employment in Cuba Cuba has almost no unemployment at all. In 2022, the unemployment rate for the Caribbean country was 1.16 percent. In that year, over 74 percent of the workforce was estimated to be employees. However, most of them are employed in the public sector, as this segment employs nearly 62.4 percent of the entire labor force. Food insecurity Despite having almost all the entire workforce employed, the Cuban population faces many challenges. In a survey in 2024, 72 percent of the population claimed that the food crisis that the country faces is the main social problem, followed by salaries with 49 percent. The difficulty of accessing food is widespread, as one in two Cubans have admitted to gone without food at least one day in 2023.