# Unemployment rate: Switzerland

4.873% 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 | 4.873 |
| 2024 | 4.343 |
| 2023 | 4.043 |
| 2022 | 4.122 |
| 2021 | 5.013 |
| 2020 | 4.817 |
| 2019 | 4.394 |
| 2018 | 4.713 |
| 2017 | 4.797 |
| 2016 | 4.918 |
| 2015 | 4.801 |
| 2014 | 4.826 |
| 2013 | 4.747 |
| 2012 | 4.491 |
| 2011 | 4.409 |
| 2010 | 4.808 |
| 2009 | 4.109 |
| 2008 | 3.35 |
| 2007 | 3.641 |
| 2006 | 3.995 |
| 2005 | 4.437 |
| 2004 | 4.316 |
| 2003 | 4.117 |
| 2002 | 2.924 |
| 2001 | 2.49 |
| 2000 | 2.658 |
| 1999 | 3.053 |
| 1998 | 3.568 |
| 1997 | 4.127 |
| 1996 | 3.684 |
| 1995 | 3.094 |
| 1994 | 3.58 |
| 1993 | 3.551 |
| 1992 | 2.344 |
| 1991 | 1.818 |

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