Russia
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 -- Russia
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The reading right now
As of January 2025, Unemployment rate for Russia stood at 2.13%. That is down 0.3 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 3.25%, ranging from a low of 2.13% in January 2025 to a high of 4.75% in January 2021. The current reading sits 2.1 percentage points below its trailing ten-year mean of 4.21%.
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