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About US unemployment rate

Category
Labor
Frequency
Monthly
Units
%
In the United States, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.

Frequently Asked Questions

To calculate US 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 US unemployment rate is 2.50%.
The highest figure US unemployment rate has ever reached is 14.70%.
Last month US unemployment rate was 3.90%, and the month before that it amounted to 3.80%.