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Japan: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1880–2025 · 98 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
2.53%percent
Change on 2024
0.0 pointsfrom 2.53%
Average, 2016–2025
2.66%10 years
Record high and low
6.80% (1932)low 0.80% (1893)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20312.53Forecast
20302.53Forecast
20292.53Forecast
20282.53Forecast
20272.53Forecast
20262.33Forecast
20252.53
20242.53
20232.57
20222.59
20212.82
20202.80
20192.36
20182.43
20172.82
20163.11

Sources

  • Historical Financial Statistics1880–1933
  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1930–2020
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1953–2025
  • OECD Key Economic Indicators1955–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor1990–2025
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • 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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