Where unemployment rate stands
The latest published reading for each of the 26 economies this indicator covers. The stronger the shading, the higher the figure — never better or worse: high growth is welcome, high unemployment is not, and a scale that decided which end was good would be wrong on half of these figures.
LowerHighernot covered
% of labour force · newest reading September 2026
- Spain10.0%
- Finland9.9%
- Sweden8.9%
- France8.2%
- Greece7.4%
- Austria6.7%
- Canada6.4%
- Euro areaaggregate6.4%
- Romania6.4%
- Italy6.2%
- Belgium5.9%
- Denmark5.9%
- Portugal5.7%
- Switzerland5.1%
- Ireland5.0%
- United Kingdom4.9%
- Hungary4.7%
- Australia4.6%
- Norway4.5%
- United States4.2%
- Germany4.0%
- Netherlands4.0%
- Poland3.4%
- Czechia3.2%
- South Korea2.7%
- Japan2.4%
Most of the world is unshaded, and that is the honest picture rather than a gap to be filled: this site carries 26 economies for unemployment rate, and shading a neighbour because it is nearby would be inventing a figure. Countries publish on different schedules, so these readings are not all from the same month — the date above is the most recent of them.