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Unemployment

ILO, % of labour force. Poland from ~20% (2002) to about 3%.

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The file

ILO unemployment, % of the labour force, from 1991. Modelled estimates, not only the local LFS.

The indicator

SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS counts people looking for work. Low unemployment with falling Labour force participation is not the same as full employment.

What the numbers show

Poland fell from ~20% (2002) to about 3%. Germany and the US hover near 4%. Youth: Youth unemployment. The cycle: GDP growth.

Source
World Bank Open Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Last publisher update
2026-07-13
Retrieved
2026-09-15
Warehouse version
v21

Cite

Longseries, “Unemployment”. World Bank Open Data (SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS), 1991–2025, Brazil, China, Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United States, World. Retrieved 2026-09-15. CC BY 4.0. Warehouse v21. https://longseries.com/en/d/unemployment/

No revisions in this copy yet — cron will append them when a publisher changes a past value.

Latest values

Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.

15 places — sorted by latest value
CountryYearValue
Spain202510.4
Sweden20258.7
France20257.5
Italy20256.4
Brazil20256.0
World20254.8
United Kingdom20254.7
China20254.6
The rest of the places (7)
Remaining 7 places
India20254.2
United States20254.2
Netherlands20253.9
Germany20253.7
Poland20253.0
Czechia20252.8
Japan20252.5

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