# Unemployment rate: Germany

3.711% in 2025, the latest year published. Figures for 35 years from 1991 to 2025 are below.

Share of the labor force without work, but actively looking for a job and available to start soon.

Source: ILO Modelled Estimates, via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data. [Source and method](/sources/unemployment) · [All countries and regions](/unemployment).

## Every year

| Year | Value (%) |
| ---: | ---: |
| 2025 | 3.711 |
| 2024 | 3.4 |
| 2023 | 3.071 |
| 2022 | 3.137 |
| 2021 | 3.594 |
| 2020 | 3.881 |
| 2019 | 3.163 |
| 2018 | 3.384 |
| 2017 | 3.781 |
| 2016 | 4.104 |
| 2015 | 4.612 |
| 2014 | 4.979 |
| 2013 | 5.316 |
| 2012 | 5.372 |
| 2011 | 5.967 |
| 2010 | 7.043 |
| 2009 | 7.88 |
| 2008 | 7.508 |
| 2007 | 8.732 |
| 2006 | 10.277 |
| 2005 | 11.193 |
| 2004 | 10.727 |
| 2003 | 9.779 |
| 2002 | 8.482 |
| 2001 | 7.773 |
| 2000 | 7.917 |
| 1999 | 8.854 |
| 1998 | 9.787 |
| 1997 | 9.861 |
| 1996 | 8.822 |
| 1995 | 8.158 |
| 1994 | 8.727 |
| 1993 | 7.675 |
| 1992 | 6.323 |
| 1991 | 5.316 |

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