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This dataset provides a 30 year comprehensive view of global employment, unemployment, and GDP trends from 1991 to 2022. It includes data of approx 183 countries on employment distribution across agriculture, industry, and services sectors, alongside unemployment rates and GDP figures.

What You Can Do with This Dataset: This dataset opens up several possibilities for analysis and exploration. You can study long-term trends in employment, unemployment, and GDP across countries and regions, and visualize how labor distribution has shifted from agriculture to services over the years. It also allows you to examine the impact of major global events, such as the 2008 Financial Crisis and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, on economic and employment patterns. Furthermore, the dataset can be used for time-series forecasting and predictive modeling, helping to estimate future employment trends and GDP growth.

Description of columns:

Country Name – The name of the country.

Year – The year of observation (1991–2022).

Employment Sector: Agriculture – Percentage of total employment in agriculture.

Employment Sector: Industry – Percentage of total employment in industry.

Employment Sector: Services – Percentage of total employment in services.

Unemployment Rate – Percentage of the labor force that is unemployed.

GDP (in USD) – Gross Domestic Product of the country (in U.S. dollars).

Dataset

This dataset was created by Saai Sudarsanan D

Released under World Bank Dataset Terms of Use

Contents

Unemployment Rate in the United States increased to 4.40 percent in September from 4.30 percent in August of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

This dataset contains global economic indicators for major countries from 2020 to 2024. It includes the following columns:

• Year: Calendar year
• Country: Country name
• GDP_USD_Billions: Gross Domestic Product in billions of USD
• Unemployment_Rate_%: Unemployment rate as a percentage
• Population_Millions: Total population in millions

This dataset can be used for: - Time-series analysis of GDP trends - Comparing unemployment rates across countries - Regression analysis between GDP and unemployment - Visualizations and global economic insights

The data is publicly available for educational and analytical purposes.

United States Unemployment Rate Nowcast: sa: Contribution:(GDP) Gross Domestic ProductNowcast: FRB Atlanta Forecast: Evolution: GDPNow: saar: QoQ data was reported at 0.000 % in 01 Dec 2025. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 % for 24 Nov 2025. United States Unemployment Rate Nowcast: sa: Contribution:(GDP) Gross Domestic ProductNowcast: FRB Atlanta Forecast: Evolution: GDPNow: saar: QoQ data is updated weekly, averaging 7.482 % from Jan 2020 (Median) to 01 Dec 2025, with 308 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 51.517 % in 06 Jul 2020 and a record low of 0.000 % in 01 Dec 2025. United States Unemployment Rate Nowcast: sa: Contribution:(GDP) Gross Domestic ProductNowcast: FRB Atlanta Forecast: Evolution: GDPNow: saar: QoQ data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by CEIC Data. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.CEIC.NC: CEIC Nowcast: Unemployment Rate.

Unemployment Rate Nowcast: sa: Contribution:(GDP) Gross Domestic ProductNowcast: GDP Nowcast: Growth: QoQ: Previous Quarter: United States data was reported at 0.000 % in 12 May 2025. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 % for 05 May 2025. Unemployment Rate Nowcast: sa: Contribution:(GDP) Gross Domestic ProductNowcast: GDP Nowcast: Growth: QoQ: Previous Quarter: United States data is updated weekly, averaging 0.000 % from Jan 2020 (Median) to 12 May 2025, with 279 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 10.030 % in 10 Apr 2023 and a record low of 0.000 % in 12 May 2025. Unemployment Rate Nowcast: sa: Contribution:(GDP) Gross Domestic ProductNowcast: GDP Nowcast: Growth: QoQ: Previous Quarter: United States data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by CEIC Data. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.CEIC.NC: CEIC Nowcast: Unemployment Rate.

In 2025, the UK economy is expected to grow by just one percent, according to the economic and fiscal outlook from March 2025. GDP growth has been downgraded from two percent when compared with the previous forecast from October 2024. The inflation rate is expected to average out at 3.2 percent, and the unemployment rate at 4.5 percent. Inflation distress continues for UK consumers The expected increase in UK inflation for 2025 looks set to peak at 3.7 percent in the third quarter of the year, before falling to two percent by early 2026. Though this spike in prices will be far less serious than in 2022, when UK inflation reached a peak of 11.1 percent in October 2022, UK households are still suffering from the impact of the previous crisis. In March 2025, approximately 59 percent of UK households were dealing with rising living costs, relative to the previous month, mainly due to rising energy and food costs. Unemployment set to rise in 2025 Aside from rising prices and a slowing economy, the UK will also have to contend with rising unemployment in 2025. As with inflation, however, the rise in unemployment is expected to be relatively mild and short-lived, especially when compared with previous periods of high unemployment. Recently, the government has been more concerned about high levels of economic inactivity, especially among young people, with the number of 16- to 24-year-olds not in employment, education, or training approaching one million towards the end of 2024.

This scatter chart displays GDP (current US$) against unemployment (% of total labor force) in Oceania. The data is about countries.

Unemployment Rate Nowcast: sa: Contribution:(GDP) Gross Domestic ProductNowcast: GDP Nowcast: Growth: QoQ: Current Quarter: United States data was reported at 10.883 % in 12 May 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 10.248 % for 05 May 2025. Unemployment Rate Nowcast: sa: Contribution:(GDP) Gross Domestic ProductNowcast: GDP Nowcast: Growth: QoQ: Current Quarter: United States data is updated weekly, averaging 0.127 % from Jan 2020 (Median) to 12 May 2025, with 279 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 38.760 % in 29 Jun 2020 and a record low of 0.000 % in 03 Feb 2025. Unemployment Rate Nowcast: sa: Contribution:(GDP) Gross Domestic ProductNowcast: GDP Nowcast: Growth: QoQ: Current Quarter: United States data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by CEIC Data. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.CEIC.NC: CEIC Nowcast: Unemployment Rate.

Graph and download economic data for Government current expenditures: Federal: Income security: Unemployment (G160761A027NBEA) from 1959 to 2023 about social assistance, expenditures, federal, government, income, unemployment, GDP, and USA.

This dataset is about regions. It has 22 rows. It features 3 columns: GDP, and unemployment. It is 98% filled with non-null values.

This scatter chart displays GDP (current US$) against unemployment (% of total labor force) in Southern Asia. The data is about countries.

This dataset is about countries per year in Korea. It has 64 rows. It features 4 columns: country, GDP, and unemployment.

Graph and download economic data for Supplements to wages and salaries: Federal employees unemployment insurance (CONBFE1A027NBEA) from 1944 to 2023 about supplements, insurance, salaries, federal, wages, unemployment, employment, GDP, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Total wages and salaries, BLS: Adjustment for wages and salaries not covered or not fully covered by unemployment insurance (W873RC1A027NBEA) from 1982 to 2024 about covered, adjusted, insurance, salaries, wages, unemployment, GDP, and USA.

Context

The data was obtained from the OECD website.

Content

Data is consisted of different Country Health Economic Indicators, namely:

Unemployment Rate , Unemployment Rate by Age Group , Unemployment Rates by Education Level , Long-term Unemployment Rate, Youth Unemployment Rate, Employment Rate , Employment Rate by Age Group , Employment Rate by Education Level , Self-employment Rate, Hours Worked, GDP per Hour Worked, Average Wages, Young Population , Old-age dependency ratio, Fertility Rates, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and General Government Debt

Acknowledgements

The data in this dataset is the property of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (the "OECD")

Inspiration

One can analyze the data to picture the Economic situation or stability of a Country from different viewpoints, as well as, different time points and overtime.

In the third quarter of 2025, the unemployment rate in the United Kingdom was highest in Wales, where it was 5.7 percent, followed by England at 5.1 percent, Scotland at 3.7 percent, and 2.4 percent in Northern Ireland, the lowest rate among the four countries of the UK. For all four countries, the peak in unemployment during this period was in the early 2010s. England and Scotland's unemployment rates were highest in Q4 2011 at 8.4 percent and 8.6 percent respectively, with unemployment reaching 9.7 percent in Wales during Q3 2011. Northern Ireland reported its highest unemployment rate in Q1 of 2013 when it reached eight percent. Unemployment ticking up as UK enters 2025 For the United Kingdom as a whole, the unemployment rate was 4.4 percent in November 2024, the joint-highest rate recorded since August 2021. After reaching 8.5 percent in late 2011, unemployment in the UK fell quite consistently for several years, with this recovery interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw unemployment rise to 5.3 percent in late 2020 and early 2021. From this point onwards, however, the labor market bounced back, and was particular strong in 2022 when there were a record number of job vacancies and unemployment fell to as low as 3.6 percent. While the labor market cooled throughout 2023 and 2024, unemployment remained at historically low levels. Overall economy grows but GDP per head falls Throughout the whole of 2024, gross domestic product in the UK grew by 0.9 percent, but in the third quarter of the year, there was no economic growth, followed by the relatively weak growth rate of 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter. Furthermore, GDP per head in the UK, declined for a second-consecutive year, and was just 36,977 pounds in 2024, compared with 37,371 pounds in 2022. Inflation, meanwhile, has fallen from the peak of 11.1 percent in October 2022, but was still at the relatively high rate of 4 percent at the start of 2024, with this falling to 2.5 percent by the end of the year.

View yearly updates and historical trends for US Employer Contributions to Unemployment Insurance. from United States. Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis…

In 2024, the rate of surveyed unemployment in urban areas of China amounted to approximately 5.1 percent. The unemployment rate is expected to remain at 5.1 percent in 2025 and the following years. Monthly unemployment ranged at a level of around 5.2 percent in the third quarter of 2025. Unemployment rate in China In 2017, the National Statistics Bureau of China introduced surveyed unemployment as a new indicator of unemployment in the country. It is based on monthly surveys among the labor force in urban areas of China. Surveyed unemployment replaced registered unemployment figures, which were often criticized for missing out large parts of the urban labor force and thereby not presenting a true picture of urban unemployment levels. However, current unemployment figures still do not include rural areas.A main concern in China’s current state of employment lies within the large regional differences. As of 2021, the unemployment rate in northeastern regions of China was notably higher than in China’s southern parts. In Beijing, China’s political and cultural center, registered unemployment ranged at around 3.2 percent for 2021. Indicators of economic activities Apart from the unemployment rate, most commonly used indicators to measure economic activities of a country are GDP growth and inflation rate. According to an IMF forecast, GDP growth in China will decrease to about four percent in 2025, after five percent in 2023, depicting a decrease of more than six percentage points from 10.6 percent in 2010. Quarterly growth data published by the National Bureau of Statistics indicated 5.4 percent GDP growth for the first quarter of 2025.

50 years+ of historical inflaction, interest and unemployment rates by country

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