France
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 - France
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The reading right now
As of January 2025, Unemployment rate for France stood at 7.54%. That is up 0.14 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 7.49%, ranging from a low of 7.3% in January 2022 to a high of 7.87% in January 2021. The current reading sits 0.69 percentage points below its trailing ten-year mean of 8.24%.
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