# Unemployment rate: Netherlands

3.874% 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 | 3.874 |
| 2024 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 3.535 |
| 2022 | 3.526 |
| 2021 | 4.209 |
| 2020 | 3.82 |
| 2019 | 3.379 |
| 2018 | 3.832 |
| 2017 | 4.837 |
| 2016 | 6.007 |
| 2015 | 6.872 |
| 2014 | 7.419 |
| 2013 | 7.241 |
| 2012 | 5.821 |
| 2011 | 4.977 |
| 2010 | 4.991 |
| 2009 | 4.352 |
| 2008 | 3.658 |
| 2007 | 4.153 |
| 2006 | 5.007 |
| 2005 | 5.872 |
| 2004 | 4.646 |
| 2003 | 3.593 |
| 2002 | 2.554 |
| 2001 | 2.119 |
| 2000 | 2.725 |
| 1999 | 3.622 |
| 1998 | 4.394 |
| 1997 | 5.511 |
| 1996 | 6.421 |
| 1995 | 7.157 |
| 1994 | 7.159 |
| 1993 | 6.287 |
| 1992 | 5.555 |
| 1991 | 7.285 |

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