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From the second quarter of 2022, France was the country of those included in the chart with the highest unemployment rates. During the first quarter of 2024, the European country registered an unemployment rate of **** percent. In the same quarter, Japan had the lowest unemployment rates of the countries included. China does not release quarterly unemployment rate statistics anymore. Monthly unemployment data can be found here.

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.

Graph and download economic data for Unemployment Rate - 20 Yrs. & over (LNU04000024) from Jan 1948 to Sep 2025 about 20 years +, unemployment, rate, and USA.

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.

Graph and download economic data for Infra-Annual Labor Statistics: Monthly Unemployment Rate Total: 15 Years or over for United States (LRHUTTTTUSQ156S) from Q1 1955 to Q2 2025 about harmonized, persons, unemployment, rate, and USA.

The 'LFS main indicators' section presents a selection of the main statistics on the labour market. They encompass indicators of activity, employment and unemployment. Those indicators are based on the results of the European Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS), in few cases integrated with data sources like national accounts employment or registered unemployment. As a result of the application of adjustments, corrections and reconciliation of EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) data, the 'LFS main indicators' is the most complete and reliable collection of employment and unemployment data available in the sub-domain 'Employment and unemployment'.

The EU-LFS data used for 'LFS main indicators' are, where necessary, adjusted and enriched in various ways, in accordance with the specificities of an indicator. The most common adjustments cover:

• estimation of missing values, i.e. in case of missing quarters, annual results and EU aggregates are estimated using interpolations of EU Labour Force Survey data with reference to the available quarter(s).
• for all quarterly indicators seasonally adjusted data are available.
• correction of the main breaks in the LFS series.

Those adjustments may produce some differences between data published under 'LFS main indicators' and 'LFS series – detailed quarterly/annual survey results', particularly for back data. For the most recent years, the different series converge, due to the implementation of a continuous quarterly survey and the improved quality of the data.

This page focuses on the 'LFS main indicators' in general. There are special pages for indicators that are listed below:

• Monthly Unemployment: une_rt_m.

Quarterly and annual unemployment figures are derived in line with all other LFS Main Indciators, and no longer aggregated from monthly unemployment series.

• Duration of working life - annual data: lfsi_dwl_a;
• Population in jobless households - annual data: lfsi_jhh_a;
• Labour market transitions - LFS longitudinal data: lfsi_long.

The entry of the new Framework regulation on Social Statistics (IESS) in 2021 created changes in the LFS Main Indicators. Most countries expected breaks for a number of series derived from LFS microdata, therefore Eurostat and participating countries launched a joint break correction exercise to produce comparable data before and under IESS. The 'LFS main indicators' section therefore contains two type of datasets depending on the underlying regulation. The first type of datasets are historical series under the pre-IESS regulation, and include the suffix ‘_h’ for historical series at the end of the table titles. Historical series will remain accessible and are continued until 2020Q4 LFS microdata revisions of previously released EU-LFS series. Reasons for revisions are for example weight revisions due to revised weighting routines, or census revisions. The second type of datasets are new tables that are filled with data under IESS from 2021Q1 on. These tables also include the break-corrected 2009Q1-2020Q4 data that are produced in the break correction exercise. If countries send longer complete time series than starting in 2009, that data will also be used and published. Until fully back-estimated series in line with IESS are available for all countries, EU and EA aggregates were based on the data that is available at the time and was flagged with a break flag. Fully break-free EU and EA aggregates were published for the first time in February 2022. More information can be found on the EU-LFS Breaks in Time Series (Statistics Explained) webpage.

General information on the EU-LFS can be found in the ESMS page for 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)', see link in related metadata. Detailed information on the main features, the legal basis, the methodology and the data as well as on the historical development of the EU-LFS is available on the EU-LFS (Statistics Explained) webpage.

Graph and download economic data for Infra-Annual Labor Statistics: Monthly Unemployment Rate Total: 15 Years or over for United Kingdom (LRHUTTTTGBQ156S) from Q1 1983 to Q3 2025 about harmonized, United Kingdom, persons, unemployment, and rate.

The unadjusted unemployment rate in the United States stood at 4.5 percent in August 2025. This data is not seasonally adjusted. The adjusted monthly unemployment rate can be found here and the monthly civilian labor force participation rate here.

Dataset from Singapore Department of Statistics. For more information, visit https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_b816a930bca0eb19fdf20fcbfcdd4c39/view

Between 2018 and 2025, the employment rate in Italy was higher for women than for men. In the first quarter of 2025, the figure stood at *** percent for males and ***** percent for females. Italy registers one of the highest unemployment rates in Europe. Nevertheless, both figures decreased in recent years.

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.

In the last quarter of 2024, approximately seven percent of Rio de Janeiro's workforce was unemployed. Women in the workforce had a higher unemployment rate than men, however, the female unemployment rate saw a decrease between the second quarter of 2023 and the last quarter of 2024. Rio de Janeiro's unemployment rate in Q4 of 2024 was slightly higher when compared to the monthly national average.

The number of people unemployed in the United Kingdom was **** million in the fourth quarter of 2024, falling from a recent peak of **** million in the fourth quarter of 2020. Unemployment is expected to reach around **** million in the first half of 2025, before gradually falling to **** million by 2027.

In Iceland, the quarterly unemployment rate for both men and women rose sharply through the two latter quarters of 2020. This can be explained by the outbreak of COVID-19. The rates fell sharply in the third quarter of 2021, reaching pre-pandemic levels for the first time since the outbreak. In the third quarter of 2023, the unemployment rate in Iceland was *** percent among men and *** percent among women.

This statistic displays the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in France from the second quarter of 2021 to the second quarter of 2023. In the second quarter of 2023, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in France was at *** percent.

Graph and download economic data for Infra-Annual Labor Statistics: Monthly Unemployment Rate Total: 25 Years or over for Lithuania (LTULRHUADTTSTSAQ) from Q2 1998 to Q3 2025 about 25 years +, harmonized, labor force, labor, persons, unemployment, and rate.

In the second quarter of 2025, ** percent of young people were unemployed, making this the largest unemployed category in the country. It was followed by women at *** percent. Overall, the unemployment rate in Portugal decreased compared to the previous quarter.

In June 2025, 2.6 percent of the economically active population in Mexico was considered unemployed, down from 4.61 percent registered in the same month of 2021. In June 2020, just a few months after the COVID-19 outbreak, the unemployment rate reached its highest monthly value since the beginning of 2019, at 5.32 percent.

There is a marginally larger share of unemployed men than women in Norway. Except for one quarter, the proportion of unemployed men was consistently higher than that of women. The unemployment rates peaked for both genders in the third quarter of 2020 due to the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19). During that quarter, 5.6 percent of men and 5.1 percent females were unemployed in Norway. In the last quarter of 2022, the rates had dropped to 3.2 percent unemployed men and 3.1 percent unemployed women.