The seasonally-adjusted national unemployment rate is measured on a monthly basis in the United States. In February 2025, the national unemployment rate was at 4.1 percent. Seasonal adjustment is a statistical method of removing the seasonal component of a time series that is used when analyzing non-seasonal trends. U.S. monthly unemployment rate According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics - the principle fact-finding agency for the U.S. Federal Government in labor economics and statistics - unemployment decreased dramatically between 2010 and 2019. This trend of decreasing unemployment followed after a high in 2010 resulting from the 2008 financial crisis. However, after a smaller financial crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment reached 8.1 percent in 2020. As the economy recovered, the unemployment rate fell to 5.3 in 2021, and fell even further in 2022. Additional statistics from the BLS paint an interesting picture of unemployment in the United States. In November 2023, the states with the highest (seasonally adjusted) unemployment rate were the Nevada and the District of Columbia. Unemployment was the lowest in Maryland, at 1.8 percent. Workers in the agricultural and related industries suffered the highest unemployment rate of any industry at seven percent in December 2023.

Unemployment Rate in the United States decreased to 4.10 percent in June from 4.20 percent in May 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 (LNS14000024) from Jan 1948 to Jun 2025 about 20 years +, household survey, unemployment, rate, and USA.

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.

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United States - Unemployment Rate - 20 Yrs. & over was 3.60% in April of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Unemployment Rate - 20 Yrs. & over reached a record high of 13.90 in April of 2020 and a record low of 2.10 in October of 1952. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Unemployment Rate - 20 Yrs. & over - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

In 2023, it was estimated that over 161 million Americans were in some form of employment, while 3.64 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.

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Graph and download economic data for Total Unemployed, Plus All Persons Marginally Attached to the Labor Force, Plus Total Employed Part Time for Economic Reasons, as a Percent of the Civilian Labor Force Plus All Persons Marginally Attached to the Labor Force (U-6) (U6RATE) from Jan 1994 to Jun 2025 about marginally attached, part-time, labor underutilization, workers, 16 years +, labor, household survey, unemployment, and USA.

The unemployment rate in Denmark increased from January 2020 to May 2020. It then slowly decreased until November 2020, when it started increasing again. Since the end of 2021, it has usually been below three percent.

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).

United States - Unemployment Rate - 20 Yrs. & over, Men was 3.80% in April of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Unemployment Rate - 20 Yrs. & over, Men reached a record high of 12.90 in April of 2020 and a record low of 1.70 in October of 1952. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Unemployment Rate - 20 Yrs. & over, Men - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

Unemployment Rate in Japan remained unchanged at 2.50 percent in May. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Japan Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

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This dataset provides employment, unemployment, labor force and unemployment rate monthly estimates for State of Iowa, Iowa counties, metropolitan statistical areas, and large cities within Iowa. Data has NOT been adjusted to eliminate the effect of intrayear variations which tend to occur during the same period on an annual basis. Data available beginning January 2020.

In June 2023, the unemployment rate in Australia was 3.5 percent, lower than the pre-COVID-19 unemployment rate of around five percent. During 2020, the unemployment rate in Australia spiked to 7.6 percent amidst the country's second coronavirus wave.

Unemployment and underemployment rates around the country

In the middle of 2023, unemployment around the country hovered between 2.9 and 4.2 percent, with South Australia leading with the highest rate of people eligible to work jobs not currently employed. New South Wales, the country’s most populous state, reported the lowest rate of unemployment at the time. Underemployment, however, was highest in Tasmania, with the country reporting a national underemployment rate of over six percent in June 2023. Some of the leading difficulties people in Australia reported as barriers to finding a job or more hours included too many other applicants for available jobs, and a lack of necessary training, qualifications, or experience.

Leading industries for employment in Australia

Australia’s employment landscape is made up of a wide range of jobs; however, it is dominated by the services sector, which covers a range of industries, including healthcare, education, tourism, and professional services. Healthcare and social assistance remain the country’s leading employment industry, accounting for approximately 15 percent of employed persons. Employment industries varied between males and females , with the construction industry the most popular employment industry for males in 2022, while close to one-quarter of employed females worked in the healthcare and social assistance field.

United States Unemployment Rate Nowcast: sa: Contribution: Securities Yield: Treasury Securities Yield: Constant Maturity: Nominal: 6 Months data was reported at 0.000 % in 12 May 2025. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 % for 05 May 2025. United States Unemployment Rate Nowcast: sa: Contribution: Securities Yield: Treasury Securities Yield: Constant Maturity: Nominal: 6 Months data is updated weekly, averaging 5.810 % from Jan 2020 (Median) to 12 May 2025, with 279 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 26.361 % in 27 Jan 2020 and a record low of 0.000 % in 12 May 2025. United States Unemployment Rate Nowcast: sa: Contribution: Securities Yield: Treasury Securities Yield: Constant Maturity: Nominal: 6 Months 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 July 2024, 3.16 billion U.S. dollars were paid out in unemployment benefits in the United States. This is an increase from June 2024, when 2.62 billion U.S. dollars were paid in unemployment benefits. The large figures seen in 2020 are largely due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Welfare in the U.S. Unemployment benefits first started in 1935 during the Great Depression as a part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The Social Security Act of 1935 ensured that Americans would not fall deeper into poverty. The United States was the only developed nation in the world at the time that did not offer any welfare benefits. This program created unemployment benefits, Medicare and Medicaid, and maternal and child welfare. The only major welfare program that the United States currently lacks is a paid maternity leave policy. Currently, the United States only offers 12 unpaid weeks of leave, under certain circumstances. However, the number of people without health insurance in the United States has greatly decreased since 2010. Unemployment benefits Current unemployment benefits in the United States vary from state to state due to unemployment being funded by both the state and the federal government. The average duration of people collecting unemployment benefits in the United States has fluctuated since January 2020, from as little as 4.55 weeks to as many as 50.32 weeks. The unemployment rate varies by ethnicity, gender, and education levels. For example, those aged 16 to 24 have faced the highest unemployment rates since 1990 during the pandemic. In February 2023, the Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV metropolitan area had the highest unemployment rate in the United States.

United States Non Farm Payroll Nowcast: sa: MoM: Contribution: Labour Market: Unemployment Insurance: Unemployment Rate: sa data was reported at 0.029 % in 12 May 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 0.876 % for 05 May 2025. United States Non Farm Payroll Nowcast: sa: MoM: Contribution: Labour Market: Unemployment Insurance: Unemployment Rate: sa data is updated weekly, averaging 0.123 % from Jan 2020 (Median) to 12 May 2025, with 277 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 40.397 % in 06 Apr 2020 and a record low of 0.000 % in 28 Apr 2025. United States Non Farm Payroll Nowcast: sa: MoM: Contribution: Labour Market: Unemployment Insurance: Unemployment Rate: sa 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: Employment: Non Farm Payroll.

United States Unemployment Rate Nowcast: sa data was reported at 4.165 % in 12 May 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 4.161 % for 05 May 2025. United States Unemployment Rate Nowcast: sa data is updated weekly, averaging 3.999 % from Jan 2020 (Median) to 12 May 2025, with 279 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 14.108 % in 04 May 2020 and a record low of 3.460 % in 29 May 2023. United States Unemployment Rate Nowcast: sa 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.