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Israel: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1969–2025 · 57 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
2.98%percent
Change on 2024
−0.0 pointsfrom 2.99%
Average, 2016–2025
3.93%10 years
Record high and low
13.4% (2003)low 2.64% (1973)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20313.60Forecast
20303.60Forecast
20293.60Forecast
20283.50Forecast
20273.30Forecast
20261.97Forecast
20252.98
20242.99
20233.44
20223.78
20214.97
20204.29
20193.83
20183.98
20174.22
20164.83

Sources

  • Bank of Israel1969–2000
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1969–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • OECD Key Economic Indicators1995–2025
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor2012–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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