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.

In 1990, the unemployment rate of the United States stood at 5.6 percent. Since then there have been many significant fluctuations to this number - the 2008 financial crisis left millions of people without work, as did the COVID-19 pandemic. By the end of 2022 and throughout 2023, the unemployment rate came to 3.6 percent, the lowest rate seen for decades. However, 2024 saw an increase up to four percent. For monthly updates on unemployment in the United States visit either the monthly national unemployment rate here, or the monthly state unemployment rate here. Both are seasonally adjusted. UnemploymentUnemployment is defined as a situation when an employed person is laid off, fired or quits his work and is still actively looking for a job. Unemployment can be found even in the healthiest economies, and many economists consider an unemployment rate at or below five percent to mean there is 'full employment' within an economy. If former employed persons go back to school or leave the job to take care of children they are no longer part of the active labor force and therefore not counted among the unemployed. Unemployment can also be the effect of events that are not part of the normal dynamics of an economy. Layoffs can be the result of technological progress, for example when robots replace workers in automobile production. Sometimes unemployment is caused by job outsourcing, due to the fact that employers often search for cheap labor around the globe and not only domestically. In 2022, the tech sector in the U.S. experienced significant lay-offs amid growing economic uncertainty. In the fourth quarter of 2022, more than 70,000 workers were laid off, despite low unemployment nationwide. The unemployment rate in the United States varies from state to state. In 2021, California had the highest number of unemployed persons with 1.38 million out of work.

View monthly updates and historical trends for US Unemployment Rate. from United States. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics. Track economic data with YCha…

The seasonally-adjusted national unemployment rate is measured on a monthly basis in the United States. In August 2025, the national unemployment rate was at 4.3 percent. Seasonal adjustment is a statistical method of removing the seasonal component of a time series that is used when analyzing non-seasonal trends.

Total employment by state, type of employer and last railroad employer in 2021. Total employment includes all employees covered by the Railroad Retirement and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Acts who worked at least one day during calendar year 2021.

Unemployment Rate in Ukraine increased to 10.50 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021 from 9.10 percent in the third quarter of 2021. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Ukraine Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

The unemployment rate in the United States falls slowly in expansions, and it may not reach its previous low point before the next recession begins. Based on this feature, I document that the frequent recessions prior to 1983 are associated with an upward trend in the unemployment rate. In contrast, the long expansions beginning in 1983 are associated with a downward trend. I then estimate a two-variable vector autoregression (VAR) that includes the unemployment rate and a recession indicator. Long-horizon forecasts from this VAR conditioned on no future recessions project that the unemployment rate will go to 3.6 percent after a long period with no recessions.

Graph and download economic data for Unemployment Rate - Black or African American (LNS14000006) from Jan 1972 to Sep 2025 about African-American, 16 years +, household survey, unemployment, rate, and USA.

This is monthly US unemployment rate data from January 2017 to November 2022. The datasets were curated from the Federal Reserve Economic Data that can be found here.

Definition of Unemployment Rate :

"The unemployment rate represents the number of unemployed as a percentage of the labour force. Labour force data are restricted to people 16 years of age and older, who currently reside in 1 of the 50 states or the District of Columbia, who do not reside in institutions (e.g., penal and mental facilities, homes for the aged), and who are not on active duty in the Armed Forces." (Source: FRED website)

Files

There are two datasets. The first dataset contains the total US unemployment rate and the second dataset contains unemployment rates per US state.

unemployment_rate_us.csv

unemployment_us - This is the total seasonally adjusted US unemployment rate in percent. You can find the data source here. first_day_of_month - The date of the first day of the month.

unemployment_rates.csv

first_day_of_month - The date of the first day of the month. state - The name of the state. unemployment_rate - This is the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate per US state in percent. You can find the data source here.

Feel free to let me know if you have any open questions with regard to the dataset.

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Youth Unemployment Rate in China decreased to 17.30 percent in October from 17.70 percent in September of 2025. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for China Youth Unemployment Rate.

Unemployment Rate in Indonesia increased to 4.85 percent in the third quarter of 2025 from 4.76 percent in the first quarter of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Indonesia Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

In 2025, it was estimated that over 163 million Americans were in some form of employment, while 4.16 percent of the total workforce was unemployed. This was the lowest unemployment rate since the 1950s, although these figures are expected to rise in 2023 and beyond. 1980s-2010s Since the 1980s, the total United States labor force has generally risen as the population has grown, however, the annual average unemployment rate has fluctuated significantly, usually increasing in times of crisis, before falling more slowly during periods of recovery and economic stability. For example, unemployment peaked at 9.7 percent during the early 1980s recession, which was largely caused by the ripple effects of the Iranian Revolution on global oil prices and inflation. Other notable spikes came during the early 1990s; again, largely due to inflation caused by another oil shock, and during the early 2000s recession. The Great Recession then saw the U.S. unemployment rate soar to 9.6 percent, following the collapse of the U.S. housing market and its impact on the banking sector, and it was not until 2016 that unemployment returned to pre-recession levels. 2020s 2019 had marked a decade-long low in unemployment, before the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic saw the sharpest year-on-year increase in unemployment since the Great Depression, and the total number of workers fell by almost 10 million people. Despite the continuation of the pandemic in the years that followed, alongside the associated supply-chain issues and onset of the inflation crisis, unemployment reached just 3.67 percent in 2022 - current projections are for this figure to rise in 2023 and the years that follow, although these forecasts are subject to change if recent years are anything to go by.

Labour force survey (LFS) Purpose and short description The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is a household sample survey, conducted throughout the year. It is based on the responses of approximately 110,000 persons aged 15-89. Its main objective is to classify the population of 15-89 years into three groups (employed, unemployed and inactive persons on the labous market) and to provide descriptive and explanatory data on every category. This survey is also carried out in the other EU Member States and is coordinated by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In Belgium, the LFS is organised by Statbel. The objective is to obtain comparable information at European level, in particular as regards employment and unemployment rates as defined by the International Labour Office (ILO), but also to collect and disseminate data that are otherwise not available, for example about the mobility of workers, the reasons for working part-time, the various forms of part-time employment, the occupation, the educational level of the working age population, ... . Survey population Members of private households aged 15-89. Sample frame Demographic data from the National Register. Data collection method and sample size Data are collected through face-to-face interviews for the first wave of the survey. Since 2017, there have been three (shorter) follow-up waves to which households respond online or by telephone. Households with only inactive persons older than 64 can also be interviewed by telephone. Every year, around 34,000 households take part in this survey. Response rate On average, the response rate in the first wave of the survey is around 68% and in the follow-up waves between 90% and 95%. Periodicity Quarterly Release calendar Results availability: around 3 months after the end of the reference period. Forms Labour Force Survey 2025 (PDF, 1 Mb) Definitions regarding employment and unemployment The survey is harmonised at European level. The definitions regarding employment and unemployment that are mentioned are those of the International Labour Office (ILO) to allow international comparison. People with a job (employed people) comprise all people who during the reference week performed some work ‘for wage or salary’ or ‘for profit’ regardless of the duration (even if this was only one hour), or who had a job but were temporarily absent. For example, one can be temporarily absent for holidays, illness, technical or economic reasons (temporary unemployment),.... Family workers are also included in the category ‘employed’. Since 2021, people who have been temporarily unemployed for an uninterrupted period of more than three months are counted as unemployed or inactive, and no longer as employed. The unemployed comprise all people who: (a) during the reference week were without work, i.e. were not in paid employment or self-employment; (b) were available for work, i.e. were available for paid employment or self-employment within two weeks after the reference week; (c) were actively seeking work, i.e. had taken specific steps during the last four weeks including the reference week to seek paid employment or self-employment, or who had found a job to start within a maximum period of three months. Please note: The ILO unemployment figures are unrelated to any possible registration with the VDAB, Actiris, FOREM or the ADG, or to the receipt of unemployment benefits from ONEM (National Employment Office). As a result, they cannot be compared with administrative unemployment figures. The labour force is made up of the employed and the unemployed. The economically inactive population comprises all people who were not considered as employed or unemployed. The employment rate represents employed persons as a percentage of the same age population. The employment rate as part of the Europe 2020 Strategy represents the share of persons employed in the population aged 20 to 64. The unemployment rate represents the share of unemployed people in the labour force (employed + unemployed) within a given age group. The economic activity rate represents the share of the labour force (employed + unemployed) in the total population within a given age group. The above indicators (employment rate, unemployment rate and economic activity rate) are the most important indicators for international comparisons of the labour market evolution. Low-skilled people are people who have at best a lower secondary education diploma. Medium-skilled people have obtained an upper secondary education diploma, but no higher education diploma. High-skilled people have a higher education diploma. Metadata Employment, unemployment, labour market (NL-FR) Labour force survey (LFS) (NL-FR) Survey methodology Modifications to the Labour Force Survey (LFS) in 2021 LFS: Methodological improvements to the Labour Force Survey 2017 (PDF, 99 Kb) LFS: Presentation of the survey until 2016 (NL-FR) LFS: Presentation of the survey from 2017 (NL-FR) Note on the occasion

United States FOMC Projection: Unemployment Rate: Range: Y3: Upper End data was reported at 4.000 % in Dec 2021. This stayed constant from the previous number of 4.000 % for Sep 2021. United States FOMC Projection: Unemployment Rate: Range: Y3: Upper End data is updated quarterly, averaging 4.200 % from Sep 2019 to Dec 2021, with 5 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 6.000 % in Sep 2020 and a record low of 4.000 % in Dec 2021. United States FOMC Projection: Unemployment Rate: Range: Y3: Upper End data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Reserve Board. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G033: Current Population Survey: Unemployment Rate: Projection: Federal Reserve Board.

This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify usual residents aged 16 years and over in England and Wales by economic activity status, by sex, and by whether and when they were last employed. The estimates are as at Census Day, 21 March 2021.

As Census 2021 was during a unique period of rapid change, take care when using this data for planning purposes. Read more about this quality notice.

Area type

Census 2021 statistics are published for a number of different geographies. These can be large, for example the whole of England, or small, for example an output area (OA), the lowest level of geography for which statistics are produced.

For higher levels of geography, more detailed statistics can be produced. When a lower level of geography is used, such as output areas (which have a minimum of 100 persons), the statistics produced have less detail. This is to protect the confidentiality of people and ensure that individuals or their characteristics cannot be identified.

Lower tier local authorities

Lower tier local authorities provide a range of local services. There are 309 lower tier local authorities in England made up of 181 non-metropolitan districts, 59 unitary authorities, 36 metropolitan districts and 33 London boroughs (including City of London). In Wales there are 22 local authorities made up of 22 unitary authorities.

Coverage

Census 2021 statistics are published for the whole of England and Wales. However, you can choose to filter areas by:

• country - for example, Wales
• region - for example, London
• local authority - for example, Cornwall
• health area – for example, Clinical Commissioning Group
• statistical area - for example, MSOA or LSOA

Economic activity status

People aged 16 years and over are economically active if, between 15 March and 21 March 2021, they were:

• in employment (an employee or self-employed)
• unemployed, but looking for work and could start within two weeks
• unemployed, but waiting to start a job that had been offered and accepted

It is a measure of whether or not a person was an active participant in the labour market during this period. Economically inactive are those aged 16 years and over who did not have a job between 15 March to 21 March 2021 and had not looked for work between 22 February to 21 March 2021 or could not start work within two weeks.

The census definition differs from International Labour Organization definition used on the Labour Force Survey, so estimates are not directly comparable.

This classification splits out full-time students from those who are not full-time students when they are employed or unemployed. It is recommended to sum these together to look at all of those in employment or unemployed, or to use the four category labour market classification, if you want to look at all those with a particular labour market status.

Sex

This is the sex recorded by the person completing the census. The options were “Female” and “Male”.

Employment history

Classifies people who were not in employment on Census Day into:

• Not in employment: Worked in the last 12 months
• Not in employment: Not worked in the last 12 months
• Not in employment: Never worked

Abstract

Focuses mainly on labour force key indicators, main characteristics of the employed, unemployed, underemployed and persons outside labour force, labour force according to level of education, distribution of the employed population by occupation, economic activity, place of work, employment status, hours and days worked and average daily wage in NIS for the employees.

Geographic coverage

The Data are representative at region level (West Bank, Gaza Strip), locality type (urban, rural, camp)

Analysis unit

Household, Individual.

Universe

The survey covered all the Palestinian persons aged 10 years and above who are a usual residence in State of Palestine

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The sample of this survey is implemented periodically every quarter by PCBS since 1995, where this survey is implemented every quarter in the year (distributed over 13 weeks). The sample is a two-stage stratified cluster sample with two stages: First stage: selection of a stratified sample of 536 EA with (pps) method. Second stage: selection of a random area sample of 15 households from each enumeration area selected in the first stage. The estimated sample size in each quarter was 8,040 households in 2021.

Mode of data collection

Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

Research instrument

The lfs questionnaire consists of four main sections: Identification Data: The main objective for this part is to record the necessary information to identify the household, such as, cluster code, sector, type of locality, cell, housing number and the cell code. Quality Control: This part involves groups of controlling standards to monitor the field and office operation, to keep in order the sequence of questionnaire stages (data collection, field and office coding, data entry, editing after entry and store the data. Household Roster: This part involves demographic characteristics about the household, like number of persons in the household, date of birth, sex, educational level…etc. Employment Part: This part involves the major research indicators, where one questionnaire had been answered by every 10 years and over household member, to be able to explore their labour force status and recognize their major characteristics toward employment status, economic activity, occupation, place of work, and other employment indicators.

Cleaning operations

All questionnaires were edited after data entry in order to minimize errors related data entry.

Response rate

The response rate was 85.0% in the fourth quarter 2021 The response rate was 83.3% in 2021 The response rate was 80.7% in the first quarter 2021 The response rate was 84.5% in the third quarter 2021 The response rate was 82.9% in the second quarter 2021

Sampling error estimates

Data of this survey affected by sampling errors due to use of the sample and not a complete enumeration. Therefore, certain differences are expected in comparison with the real values obtained through censuses. Variance were calculated for the most important indicators, the variance table is attached with the final report. There is no problem to disseminate results at the national level and at the level of governorates of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Data appraisal

The concept of data quality encompasses various aspects, started with planning of the survey to how to publish, understand and benefit from the data. The most important components of statistical quality elements are accuracy, comparability and quality control procedures

This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify usual residents aged 16 years and over in England and Wales by year last worked and by age. The estimates are as at Census Day, 21 March 2021.

As Census 2021 was during a unique period of rapid change, take care when using this data for planning purposes. Read more about this quality notice.

Estimates for single year of age between ages 90 and 100+ are less reliable than other ages. Estimation and adjustment at these ages was based on the age range 90+ rather than five-year age bands. Read more about this quality notice.

Area type

Census 2021 statistics are published for a number of different geographies. These can be large, for example the whole of England, or small, for example an output area (OA), the lowest level of geography for which statistics are produced.

For higher levels of geography, more detailed statistics can be produced. When a lower level of geography is used, such as output areas (which have a minimum of 100 persons), the statistics produced have less detail. This is to protect the confidentiality of people and ensure that individuals or their characteristics cannot be identified.

Coverage

Census 2021 statistics are published for the whole of England and Wales. Data are also available in these geographic types:

• country - for example, Wales
• region - for example, London
• local authority - for example, Cornwall
• health area – for example, Clinical Commissioning Group
• statistical area - for example, MSOA or LSOA

Employment history

Classifies people who were not in employment on Census Day into:

• Not in employment: Worked in the last 12 months
• Not in employment: Not worked in the last 12 months
• Not in employment: Never worked

Age

A person’s age on Census Day, 21 March 2021 in England and Wales. Infants aged under 1 year are classified as 0 years of age.

The unemployment rate of the United Kingdom was five percent in September 2025, up from 4.8 percent in the previous month, and the highest rate of unemployment since 2021. Before the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK had relatively low levels of unemployment. Between January 2000 and the most recent month, unemployment was highest in November 2011, when the unemployment rate hit 8.5 percent. Will unemployment continue to rise in 2025? Although low by historic standards, there has been a noticeable uptick in the UK's unemployment rate, with other labor market indicators also pointing to further loosening. In December 2024, the number of job vacancies in the UK fell to its lowest level since May 2021, while payrolled employment declined by 47,000 compared with November. Whether this is a continuation of a broader cooling of the labor market since 2022 or a reaction to more recent economic developments, such as upcoming tax rises for employers, remains to be seen. Forecasts made in late 2024 suggest that the unemployment rate will remain relatively stable in 2025, averaging out at 4.1 percent and falling again to four percent in 2026.
Demographics of the unemployed As of the third quarter of 2024, the unemployment rate for men was slightly higher than that of women, at 4.4 percent, compared to 4.1 percent. During the financial crisis at the end of the 2000s, the unemployment rate for women peaked at a quarterly rate of 7.7 percent, whereas for men, the rate was 9.1 percent. Unemployment is also heavily associated with age, and young people in general are far more vulnerable to unemployment than older age groups. In late 2011, for example, the unemployment rate for those aged between 16 and 24 reached 22.3 percent, compared with 8.2 percent for people aged 25 to 34, while older age groups had even lower peaks during this time.

The contents of the dataset relate to employment and unemployment trends in the province of Trento. The data, which come from various sources, were compiled by the Labour Market and Policy Studies Office for the drafting of the Annual Employment Report in the province of Trento, available as open content at the URL: https://www.agenzialavoro.tn.it/Open-Data/Other-content-available The dataset, including resources in PDF format, is also available on the Employment Agency’s Open Data Portal at the URL: https://www.agenzialavoro.tn.it/Open-Data/I-dataset-available/Population-and-society/Labour-market/Employment-and-unemployment/Year-2021 Data presented in absolute values shall be rounded to the nearest hundred. For this reason, the totals may not coincide with the sum of the individual values. The "time extension" metadata indicates the year (or years, in case of a time series) to which the dataset resources refer. In some cases, resources referring to a year may also contain data from the previous year for comparison. The indent ”-“ replaces the unpublished data as either unavailable or undeterminable or unpublishable to protect the confidentiality of the statistical data (for values less than or equal to 5) or, in the case of sampling values, unreliable. The data released in CSV format are: Machine Readable, identified in the file name with the suffix _MR and validated. ATTRIBUTION: data compiled by the Office of Studies of Policies and Labour Market on data of continuous survey on the annual average labour force Istat-ISPAT.

ANOFM calculates and publishes statistical indicators on registered unemployment, according to the legal provisions. Number of registered unemployed represents both the unemployed compensated (unemployed beneficiaries of benefits with experience in work and unemployed beneficiaries of unemployment benefit without work experience/educational graduates) and the unemployed unpaid (without unemployment benefit) and are based on the data from the primary documents and records from the database of the territorial employment agencies. Represents the stock at the end of the reference month. The unemployment rate is determined as a ratio between the number of unemployed registered with the county and Bucharest employment agencies (allowed and unpaid) at the end of the reference month and the civilly active population. The active civilian population represents the potential labour supply and employment of the population comprising the civil employed population and the registered unemployed. The indicator is determined annually by the National Institute of Statistics by the labour force balance at the level of the country, development region and county. The unemployment rate is calculated with the civil active population as of 1 January 2017. The total number of unemployed registered is structured on: sexes (women, men); — type of compensation (allowed, not paid); level of education (without studies, primary education, secondary education, secondary education, post-secondary education, vocational education/arts and trades, university education); age groups (under 25 years, 25-29 years, 30-39 years, 40-49 years, 50-55 years, over 55 years). it’s the first time I've ever heard about it, but I'm not sure I'm going to be able to do it. Number of registered unemployed represents both the unemployed compensated (unemployed beneficiaries of benefits with experience in work and unemployed beneficiaries of unemployment benefit without work experience/educational graduates) and the unemployed unpaid (without unemployment benefit) and are based on the data from the primary documents and records from the database of the territorial employment agencies. Represents the stock at the end of the reference month. The unemployment rate is determined as a ratio between the number of unemployed registered with the county and Bucharest employment agencies (allowed and unpaid) at the end of the reference month and the civilly active population. The active civilian population represents the potential labour supply and employment of the population comprising the civil employed population and the registered unemployed. The indicator is determined annually by the National Institute of Statistics by the labour force balance at the level of the country, development region and county. The unemployment rate is calculated with the civil active population as of 1 January 2017. The total number of unemployed registered is structured on: sexes (women, men); — type of compensation (allowed, not paid); level of education (without studies, primary education, secondary education, secondary education, post-secondary education, vocational education/arts and trades, university education); age groups (under 25 years, 25-29 years, 30-39 years, 40-49 years, 50-55 years, over 55 years). averages of residence (urban, rural).