# Unemployment rate: United States

4.198% 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 | 4.198 |
| 2024 | 4.022 |
| 2023 | 3.638 |
| 2022 | 3.65 |
| 2021 | 5.349 |
| 2020 | 8.055 |
| 2019 | 3.669 |
| 2018 | 3.896 |
| 2017 | 4.355 |
| 2016 | 4.869 |
| 2015 | 5.28 |
| 2014 | 6.168 |
| 2013 | 7.375 |
| 2012 | 8.069 |
| 2011 | 8.949 |
| 2010 | 9.633 |
| 2009 | 9.254 |
| 2008 | 5.784 |
| 2007 | 4.622 |
| 2006 | 4.623 |
| 2005 | 5.084 |
| 2004 | 5.529 |
| 2003 | 5.989 |
| 2002 | 5.783 |
| 2001 | 4.731 |
| 2000 | 3.992 |
| 1999 | 4.219 |
| 1998 | 4.511 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 1996 | 5.451 |
| 1995 | 5.65 |
| 1994 | 6.119 |
| 1993 | 6.9 |
| 1992 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 6.8 |

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