# Unemployment rate: North America (WB)

4.5110865% 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 | 4.5110865 |
| 2024 | 4.2902994 |
| 2023 | 3.8406107 |
| 2022 | 3.833101 |
| 2021 | 5.5921097 |
| 2020 | 8.230599 |
| 2019 | 3.8905668 |
| 2018 | 4.107211 |
| 2017 | 4.579717 |
| 2016 | 5.103407 |
| 2015 | 5.460641 |
| 2014 | 6.2608323 |
| 2013 | 7.3497634 |
| 2012 | 7.9958897 |
| 2011 | 8.807848 |
| 2010 | 9.477587 |
| 2009 | 9.169949 |
| 2008 | 5.8365283 |
| 2007 | 4.7824316 |
| 2006 | 4.816141 |
| 2005 | 5.2575088 |
| 2004 | 5.701248 |
| 2003 | 6.1532617 |
| 2002 | 5.974864 |
| 2001 | 4.9796195 |
| 2000 | 4.273168 |
| 1999 | 4.551718 |
| 1998 | 4.882262 |
| 1997 | 5.4030156 |
| 1996 | 5.8618326 |
| 1995 | 6.030245 |
| 1994 | 6.5455594 |
| 1993 | 7.349893 |
| 1992 | 7.8731575 |
| 1991 | 7.160851 |

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