Germany
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 - Germany
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The reading right now
As of January 2025, Unemployment rate for Germany stood at 3.71%. That is up 0.31 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 3.38%, ranging from a low of 3.07% in January 2023 to a high of 3.71% in January 2025. The current reading sits 0.19 percentage points above its trailing ten-year mean of 3.52%.
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