United States: Unemployment rate
Percent · 1890–2025 · 136 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp
- 2025
- 4.28%percent
- Change on 2024
- +0.3 pointsfrom 4.03%
- Average, 2016–2025
- 4.58%10 years
- Record high and low
- 24.9% (1933)low 1.20% (1944)
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| Year | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| 2031 | 3.86 | Forecast |
| 2030 | 3.87 | Forecast |
| 2029 | 3.90 | Forecast |
| 2028 | 4.11 | Forecast |
| 2027 | 4.25 | Forecast |
| 2026 | 4.10 | Forecast |
| 2025 | 4.28 | |
| 2024 | 4.03 | |
| 2023 | 3.63 | |
| 2022 | 3.65 | |
| 2021 | 5.35 | |
| 2020 | 8.10 | |
| 2019 | 3.68 | |
| 2018 | 3.89 | |
| 2017 | 4.36 | |
| 2016 | 4.88 |
Sources
- Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1890–2020
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis1948–2025
- IMF International Financial Statistics1950–2024
- OECD Key Economic Indicators1955–2025
- OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
- IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
- World Bank Global Economic Monitor1990–2024
- 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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