World
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 - World
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The reading right now
As of January 2025, Unemployment rate for World stood at 4.79%. That is down 0.01 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 5.15%, ranging from a low of 4.79% in January 2025 to a high of 6.05% in January 2021. The current reading sits 0.76 percentage points below its trailing ten-year mean of 5.55%.
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