France: Unemployment rate
Percent · 1894–2025 · 120 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp
- 2025
- 7.61%percent
- Change on 2024
- +0.2 pointsfrom 7.38%
- Average, 2016–2025
- 8.25%10 years
- Record high and low
- 15.4% (1932)low 0.335% (1947)
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| Year | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| 2031 | 7.29 | Forecast |
| 2030 | 7.39 | Forecast |
| 2029 | 7.53 | Forecast |
| 2028 | 7.72 | Forecast |
| 2027 | 8.70 | Forecast |
| 2026 | 7.58 | Forecast |
| 2025 | 7.61 | |
| 2024 | 7.38 | |
| 2023 | 7.34 | |
| 2022 | 7.30 | |
| 2021 | 7.87 | |
| 2020 | 8.02 | |
| 2019 | 8.43 | |
| 2018 | 9.02 | |
| 2017 | 9.41 | |
| 2016 | 10.1 |
Sources
- Villa1894–1994
- Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1895–2020
- AMECO (European Commission)1960–2025
- OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
- IMF International Financial Statistics1970–2025
- IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
- OECD Key Economic Indicators1983–2025
- World Bank Global Economic Monitor1990–2025
- International Labour Organization2000–2023
- Eurostat2003–2025
- AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
- OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
- IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031
Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →
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