Key data points
Last release
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Observation period
Dec 2024
Next release
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Forecast
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Highest
13.70 % on May 31, 2020
Lowest
2.90 % on Jun 30, 1966
About Canada unemployment rate
In Canada, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.
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Frequently Asked Questions
To calculate Canada unemployment rate you need to take the number of the country residents without a job and looking for work divided by the total number of residents in the labor force.
The lowest ever Canada unemployment rate is 2.90%.
The highest figure Canada unemployment rate has ever reached is 13.70%.
Last month Canada unemployment rate was 6.70%, and the month before that it amounted to 6.80%.