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US unemployment rate

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Key data points


Last release
Observation period
Sep 2024
Next release
Forecast
Highest
14.90% on Apr 30, 2020
Lowest
2.50% on Jun 30, 1953

About US unemployment rate


Category
Labor
Frequency
Monthly
Units
%
In the United States, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.

Frequently Asked Questions


To calculate US 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 US unemployment rate is 2.50%.
The highest figure US unemployment rate has ever reached is 14.90%.
Last month US unemployment rate was 4.20%, and the month before that it amounted to 4.30%.