Switzerland
Unemployment rate
The unemployment rate measures the share of the labor force actively looking for work but not employed. It is a lagging but essential gauge of labor-market slack.
Unemployment Rate -- Switzerland
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The reading right now
As of January 2025, Unemployment rate for Switzerland stood at 4.87%. That is up 0.53 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 4.48%, ranging from a low of 4.04% in January 2023 to a high of 5.01% in January 2021. The current reading sits 0.27 percentage points above its trailing ten-year mean of 4.6%.
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