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    United States Employment Rate

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    TRADING ECONOMICS, United States Employment Rate [Dataset]. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employment-rate
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Time period covered
    Jan 31, 1948 - Jun 30, 2025
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    Employment Rate in the United States remained unchanged at 59.70 percent in June. This dataset provides - United States Employment Rate- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

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    United States Unemployment Rate

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    Updated Jul 3, 2025
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    TRADING ECONOMICS (2025). United States Unemployment Rate [Dataset]. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate
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    Dataset updated
    Jul 3, 2025
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    TRADING ECONOMICS
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Time period covered
    Jan 31, 1948 - Jun 30, 2025
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    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.

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    Infra-Annual Labor Statistics: Employment Rate Total: From 55 to 64 Years...

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    Updated Jun 16, 2025
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    (2025). Infra-Annual Labor Statistics: Employment Rate Total: From 55 to 64 Years for United States [Dataset]. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LREM55TTUSM156N
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    Jun 16, 2025
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    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    Graph and download economic data for Infra-Annual Labor Statistics: Employment Rate Total: From 55 to 64 Years for United States (LREM55TTUSM156N) from Jan 1955 to May 2025 about 55 to 64 years, employment-population ratio, employment, population, rate, and USA.

  4. U.S. employment rate 1990-2024

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    Updated Apr 7, 2025
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    Statista (2025). U.S. employment rate 1990-2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/192398/employment-rate-in-the-us-since-1990/
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    Apr 7, 2025
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    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    In 2024, the U.S. employment rate stood at 60.1 percent. Employed persons consist of: persons who did any work for pay or profit during the survey reference week; persons who did at least 15 hours of unpaid work in a family-operated enterprise; and persons who were temporarily absent from their regular jobs because of illness, vacation, bad weather, industrial dispute, or various personal reasons. The employment-population ratio represents the proportion of the civilian non-institutional population that is employed. The monthly unemployment rate for the United States can be found here.

  5. Total employment figures and unemployment rate in the United States...

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    Updated Jul 4, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Total employment figures and unemployment rate in the United States 1980-2025 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/269959/employment-in-the-united-states/
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    Jul 4, 2024
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    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    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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    Employment-Population Ratio

    • fred.stlouisfed.org
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    Updated Jun 6, 2025
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    (2025). Employment-Population Ratio [Dataset]. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EMRATIO
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    Jun 6, 2025
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    Description

    Graph and download economic data for Employment-Population Ratio (EMRATIO) from Jan 1948 to May 2025 about employment-population ratio, civilian, 16 years +, household survey, employment, population, and USA.

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    Infra-Annual Labor Statistics: Employment Rate Total: From 25 to 54 Years...

    • fred.stlouisfed.org
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    Updated Jun 16, 2025
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    (2025). Infra-Annual Labor Statistics: Employment Rate Total: From 25 to 54 Years for United States [Dataset]. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LREM25TTUSM156S
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    Jun 16, 2025
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    United States
    Description

    Graph and download economic data for Infra-Annual Labor Statistics: Employment Rate Total: From 25 to 54 Years for United States (LREM25TTUSM156S) from Jan 1977 to May 2025 about 25 to 54 years, employment-population ratio, employment, population, rate, and USA.

  8. U.S. seasonally adjusted unemployment rate 2023-2025

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    Updated Mar 11, 2025
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    Statista (2025). U.S. seasonally adjusted unemployment rate 2023-2025 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/273909/seasonally-adjusted-monthly-unemployment-rate-in-the-us/
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    Mar 11, 2025
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    Time period covered
    Feb 2023 - Feb 2025
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    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.

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    U.S. Unemployment Rate (1991-2024)

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    Updated Jun 30, 2025
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    MACROTRENDS (2025). U.S. Unemployment Rate (1991-2024) [Dataset]. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/united-states/unemployment-rate
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    Jun 30, 2025
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Time period covered
    Jan 1, 1991 - Dec 31, 2024
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    Historical chart and dataset showing U.S. unemployment rate by year from 1991 to 2024.

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    Employment and Unemployment

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    Updated Dec 9, 2024
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    Champaign County Regional Planning Commission (2024). Employment and Unemployment [Dataset]. https://data.ccrpc.org/dataset/employment-and-unemployment
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    Dec 9, 2024
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    Description

    The employment and unemployment indicator shows several data points. The first figure is the number of people in the labor force, which includes the number of people who are either working or looking for work. The second two figures, the number of people who are employed and the number of people who are unemployed, are the two subcategories of the labor force. The unemployment rate is a calculation of the number of people who are in the labor force and unemployed as a percentage of the total number of people in the labor force.

    The unemployment rate does not include people who are not employed and not in the labor force. This includes adults who are neither working nor looking for work. For example, full-time students may choose not to seek any employment during their college career, and are thus not considered in the unemployment rate. Stay-at-home parents and other caregivers are also considered outside of the labor force, and therefore outside the scope of the unemployment rate.

    The unemployment rate is a key economic indicator, and is illustrative of economic conditions in the county at the individual scale.

    There are additional considerations to the unemployment rate. Because it does not count those who are outside the labor force, it can exclude individuals who were looking for a job previously, but have since given up. The impact of this on the overall unemployment rate is difficult to quantify, but it is important to note because it shows that no statistic is perfect.

    The unemployment rates for Champaign County, the City of Champaign, and the City of Urbana are extremely similar between 2000 and 2023.

    All three areas saw a dramatic increase in the unemployment rate between 2006 and 2009. The unemployment rates for all three areas decreased overall between 2010 and 2019. However, the unemployment rate in all three areas rose sharply in 2020 due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The unemployment rate in all three areas dropped again in 2021 as pandemic restrictions were removed, and were almost back to 2019 rates in 2022. However, the unemployment rate in all three areas rose slightly from 2022 to 2023.

    This data is sourced from the Illinois Department of Employment Security’s Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS), and from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

    Sources: Illinois Department of Employment Security, Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS); U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

  11. U.S. annual unemployment rate 1990-2024

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    Updated Mar 11, 2025
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    Statista (2025). U.S. annual unemployment rate 1990-2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/193290/unemployment-rate-in-the-usa-since-1990/
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    Mar 11, 2025
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    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    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 Full Time Employment

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    TRADING ECONOMICS, United States Full Time Employment [Dataset]. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/full-time-employment
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Time period covered
    Jan 31, 1968 - Jun 30, 2025
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    Full Time Employment in the United States increased to 135277 Thousand in June from 134840 Thousand in May of 2025. This dataset provides - United States Full Time Employment- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

  13. U.S. employment rate 2000-2024, by age

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    Updated Apr 7, 2025
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    Statista (2025). U.S. employment rate 2000-2024, by age [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/217899/us-employment-rate-by-age/
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    Apr 7, 2025
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    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    In 2024, the employment rate of the workforce of 55 years and older decreased to 37.3 percent. Employment rate among young adults (age 16-24) was at 50.9 percent in 2024. For monthly updates on employment in the United States visit the annual national employment rate here.

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    U.S. Unemployment Rate (1948-2025)

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    Updated Jun 30, 2025
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    MACROTRENDS (2025). U.S. Unemployment Rate (1948-2025) [Dataset]. https://www.macrotrends.net/1316/us-national-unemployment-rate
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    Jun 30, 2025
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Time period covered
    1948 - 2025
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    Historical chart and data for the united states national unemployment rate back to 1948. Compares the level and annual rate of change.

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    Employment Level

    • fred.stlouisfed.org
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    Updated Jul 3, 2025
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    (2025). Employment Level [Dataset]. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CE16OV
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    Jul 3, 2025
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    Graph and download economic data for Employment Level (CE16OV) from Jan 1948 to Jun 2025 about civilian, 16 years +, household survey, employment, and USA.

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    United States Labor Force Participation Rate

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    TRADING ECONOMICS, United States Labor Force Participation Rate [Dataset]. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/labor-force-participation-rate
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Time period covered
    Jan 31, 1948 - Jun 30, 2025
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    Labor Force Participation Rate in the United States decreased to 62.30 percent in June from 62.40 percent in May of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Labor Force Participation 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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    United States Part Time Employment

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    TRADING ECONOMICS, United States Part Time Employment [Dataset]. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/part-time-employment
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Time period covered
    Jan 31, 1968 - Jun 30, 2025
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    Part Time Employment in the United States decreased to 28190 Thousand in June from 28557 Thousand in May of 2025. This dataset provides - United States Part Time Employment- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

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    Employment-Population Ratio - 25-54 Yrs.

    • fred.stlouisfed.org
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    Updated Jul 3, 2025
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    (2025). Employment-Population Ratio - 25-54 Yrs. [Dataset]. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060
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    Dataset updated
    Jul 3, 2025
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    Graph and download economic data for Employment-Population Ratio - 25-54 Yrs. (LNS12300060) from Jan 1948 to Jun 2025 about 25 to 64 years, employment-population ratio, employment, population, and USA.

  19. United States US: Employment Rate: Age 15-74

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    Updated Feb 15, 2025
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    CEICdata.com (2025). United States US: Employment Rate: Age 15-74 [Dataset]. https://www.ceicdata.com/en/united-states/employment-and-unemployment-forecast-oecd-member-annual/us-employment-rate-age-1574
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    Dataset updated
    Feb 15, 2025
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Time period covered
    Dec 1, 2015 - Dec 1, 2026
    Area covered
    United States
    Variables measured
    Unemployment
    Description

    United States US: Employment Rate: Age 15-74 data was reported at 67.118 % in 2026. This records an increase from the previous number of 66.828 % for 2025. United States US: Employment Rate: Age 15-74 data is updated yearly, averaging 65.646 % from Dec 1985 (Median) to 2026, with 42 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 69.750 % in 2000 and a record low of 61.414 % in 2010. United States US: Employment Rate: Age 15-74 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.OECD.EO: Employment and Unemployment: Forecast: OECD Member: Annual.

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    Employment Rate: Aged 15-64: All Persons for the United States

    • tradingeconomics.com
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    Updated May 17, 2018
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    TRADING ECONOMICS (2018). Employment Rate: Aged 15-64: All Persons for the United States [Dataset]. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employment-rate-aged-15-64-all-persons-for-the-united-states-percent-sa-fed-data.html
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    json, csv, excel, xmlAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    May 17, 2018
    Dataset authored and provided by
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    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Time period covered
    Jan 1, 1976 - Dec 31, 2025
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    Employment Rate: Aged 15-64: All Persons for the United States was 71.90% in January of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Employment Rate: Aged 15-64: All Persons for the United States reached a record high of 74.27 in April of 2000 and a record low of 62.40 in April of 2020. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Employment Rate: Aged 15-64: All Persons for the United States - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

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TRADING ECONOMICS, United States Employment Rate [Dataset]. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employment-rate

United States Employment Rate

United States Employment Rate - Historical Dataset (1948-01-31/2025-06-30)

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Time period covered
Jan 31, 1948 - Jun 30, 2025
Area covered
United States
Description

Employment Rate in the United States remained unchanged at 59.70 percent in June. This dataset provides - United States Employment Rate- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

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