Key data points
Last release
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Observation period
Sep 2024
Next release
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Forecast
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Highest
8.50% on Jun 30, 2003
Lowest
1.00% on Dec 31, 1989
About Hong Kong unemployment rate
In Hong Kong, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.
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Frequently Asked Questions
To calculate Hong Kong unemployment rate you need to take the number of the country residents without a job and looking for work divided by the total number of residents in the labor force.
The lowest ever Hong Kong unemployment rate is 1.00%.
The highest figure Hong Kong unemployment rate has ever reached is 8.50%.
Last month Hong Kong unemployment rate was 3.00%, and the month before that it amounted to 3.00%.