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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)

Unemployment rate

Report error
0%5%10%15%20%1900192019401960198020002020FranceFrance
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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20317.29Forecast
20307.39Forecast
20297.53Forecast
20287.72Forecast
20278.70Forecast
20267.58Forecast
20257.61
20247.38
20237.34
20227.30
20217.87
20208.02
20198.43
20189.02
20179.41
201610.1

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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