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Norway: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1904–2025 · 118 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
4.48%percent
Change on 2024
+0.5 pointsfrom 4.01%
Average, 2016–2025
4.09%10 years
Record high and low
10.8% (1933)low 0.591% (1916)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20313.90Forecast
20303.90Forecast
20294.00Forecast
20284.00Forecast
20274.20Forecast
20264.11Forecast
20254.48
20244.01
20233.59
20223.25
20214.41
20204.59
20193.73
20183.85
20174.22
20164.74

Sources

  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1904–2020
  • Ellison, Lee & O'Rourke1925–1936
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1972–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1972–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • OECD Key Economic Indicators1989–2025
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor1990–2025
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023
  • 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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