Graph and download economic data for Unemployment Rate - Women (LNS14000002) from Jan 1948 to Sep 2025 about females, 16 years +, household survey, unemployment, rate, and USA.

The unemployment rate among the female labor force in the United States decreased from the previous year to 3.9 percent in 2024. The unemployment rate of women in the U.S. reached a high of 8.6 percent in 2010.

In August 2025, the unadjusted unemployment rate of women in the United States stood at 4.8 percent. This was an increase from the previous month. What is seasonal adjustment? Seasonal adjustment is a statistical method that attempts to remove seasonal patters from figures to show how employment and unemployment changes from month to month. For example, seasonal adjustment is used to account for the extra people that are hired in retail around Christmas. Seasonal adjustment makes it so that monthly data can be compared more accurately over the long term. When looking at the seasonally adjusted female unemployment rate, for example, one can see that it is more uniform than the unadjusted rate in order to account for the seasonal component. Unemployment in the United States Unemployment in the United States is seen as a critical indicator of how the economy is doing. In 2010, for example, unemployment in the U.S. was at 9.6 percent due to the Great Recession – the highest figure since 1990. Since 2010, unemployment has been steadily falling as the economy has recovered, and even hit its lowest point since 1990 in 2022, at 3.6 percent. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, unemployment in 2021 soared to 8.1 percent.

Graph and download economic data for Unemployment Rate - 20 Yrs. & over, White Women (LNS14000029) from Jan 1954 to Aug 2025 about 20 years +, white, females, household survey, unemployment, rate, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Unemployment Rate - 20 Yrs. & over, Black or African American Women (LNS14000032) from Jan 1972 to Sep 2025 about 20 years +, African-American, females, household survey, unemployment, rate, and USA.

As of August 2025, approximately 3.83 million women in the United States were unemployed. This reflects no change from the previous month. The data has not been seasonally adjusted.

As of the second quarter of 2025, there were approximately 886,000 unemployed men in the United Kingdom and 787,000 unemployed women, compared with the previous quarter when there were 863,000 unemployed men and 751,000 unemployed women.

The seasonally adjusted national unemployment rate of the female workforce in the United States stood at 4.2 percent in August 2025. Seasonal adjustment is a statistical method for removing the seasonal component of a time series that is used when analyzing non-seasonal trends.

Graph and download economic data for Unemployment Rate - 20 Yrs. & over, Women (LNS14000026) from Jan 1948 to Aug 2025 about 20 years +, females, household survey, unemployment, rate, and USA.

The average for 2023 based on 177 countries was 8.15 percent. The highest value was in Swaziland: 36.7 percent and the lowest value was in Cambodia: 0.25 percent. The indicator is available from 1991 to 2024. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Graph and download economic data for Unemployment Rate - 20-24 Yrs., Women (LNU04000038) from Jan 1948 to Sep 2025 about 20 to 24 years, females, unemployment, rate, and USA.

United States Unemployment Rate: Female data was reported at 3.400 % in Dec 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 3.500 % for Nov 2018. United States Unemployment Rate: Female data is updated monthly, averaging 5.850 % from Jan 1948 (Median) to Dec 2018, with 852 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 10.400 % in Jun 1983 and a record low of 2.600 % in May 1953. United States Unemployment Rate: Female data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G018: Current Population Survey: Unemployment Rate.

In the third quarter of 2025 the unemployment rate for men in the United Kingdom was 5.4 percent, while for women it was 4.5 percent. The male unemployment rates seen in late 2020 were the highest since 2015, while the rates for women reached heights last seen in 2016. During the provided time period, the unemployment rate for men peaked in Q1 1993 at 12.7 percent, while for women the unemployment rate was highest in Q2 1984 when it was 11.8 percent. Unemployment uptick to continue? The overall unemployment rate for the UK was 4.4 percent in November 2024, which was quite low but, slightly above the record low rates seen in 2022. During that year, there was also a peak in the number of job vacancies in the UK, which reached 1.3 million in May 2022. Since that point, however, the number of vacancies has been falling, and was at its lowest level since May 2021 in January 2024, at 812,000. Current forecasts for unemployment anticipate an annual rate of 4.1 percent for 2025, although this may be revised upwards in the future. Youth unemployment in the UK The unemployment rate for people in the United Kingdom is heavily associated with age. For people aged between 16 and 24 years, for example, the unemployment rate was 14.8 percent in the third quarter of 2024, compared with just 2.3 percent for those aged between 35 and 49. As with the overall unemployment rate, young men had a higher unemployment rate at 17.7 percent, compared with 11.9 percent for young women in the third quarter of 2024.

In Sweden, the unemployment rate was higher among men than among women over the past decade. However, in 2019, female unemployment rate was higher for the first time since 2008. In 2023, the unemployment rate among men was 7.5 percent, compared to eight for women. The general unemployment rate was 7.7 percent in 2023. High youth unemployment rateThe young population, from 15 to 19 years, had the highest rate of unemployment in 2022. In this age group, the unemployment rate was 35 percent. The second highest unemployment rate was in the age group from 20 to 24 years, reaching 14 percent. As of August 2023, Sweden had the sixth highest youth unemployment rate in the European Union.Unemployment benefits To be eligible to receive unemployment benefits in Sweden, the unemployed needs to be registered at the Swedish Public Employment Service (Arbetsförmedlingen), needs to be ready to take a job at any time, and needs to have had a job for at least six months during the last year. Nearly 228,000 individuals in Sweden received unemployment benefits (A-kassa) in 2022.

United States - Unemployment Rate - 20 Yrs. & over, White Women was 3.20% in August of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Unemployment Rate - 20 Yrs. & over, White Women reached a record high of 15.00 in April of 2020 and a record low of 2.60 in July of 2022. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Unemployment Rate - 20 Yrs. & over, White Women - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on November of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for Unemployment Rate - 50-54 Yrs., Women (LNU04000345) from Jun 1976 to Aug 2025 about 50 to 54 years, females, unemployment, rate, and USA.

The unemployment rate in Egypt stood at seven percent as of the second quarter of 2023. In the observed period, the unemployment rate among women was higher than that among men. In the second quarter of 2020, the rate among women dropped to 16.3 percent from 21.9 percent, while it reached its highest rate among men at 8.5 percent.

Ukraine: Unemployment rate for females: The latest value from 2021 is 10.15 percent, an increase from 9.07 percent in 2020. In comparison, the world average is 9.45 percent, based on data from 180 countries. Historically, the average for Ukraine from 1991 to 2021 is 7.19 percent. The minimum value, 1.67 percent, was reached in 1991 while the maximum of 11.32 percent was recorded in 1999.

As of 2023, the unemployment rate for women in Germany was *** percent. This was an increase compared to the year before. In fact, female unemployment in Germany peaked in 2005 at **** percent, but steadily fell in the following years.

Of the Nordic countries, Sweden had the highest unemployment rare among women in 2023. Finland had the highest unemployment rates from 2014 to 2018, but its female unemployment rate fell by more than two percentage points from 2017 to 2019. Meanwhile, Norway had the lowest female unemployment rate in 2023 with *** percent. Female unemployment rates are similar to those among men.