US unemployment rate
ObservedUnemployed people as a share of the civilian labor force, ages 16 and over, seasonally adjusted.
Ingestedfrom Federal Reserve Bank of St. LouisfreshJSON export
Current value, World
no observations ingested yet
- Geography
- World (WLD)
- Observation date
- none
- Unit
- percent
- Frequency
- monthly
- Ingested
- never
1-year changeno observations ingested yet
10-year trendno observations ingested yet
Historical series
US unemployment rate, World
Observed
No observations ingested yet for World.
Definition
What this measures
The unemployment rate represents the number of unemployed as a percentage of the labor force. Labor force data are restricted to people 16 years of age and older, who currently reside in one of the 50 states or the District of Columbia, who do not reside in institutions, and who are not on active duty in the Armed Forces. BLS Current Population Survey, FRED series UNRATE, monthly, seasonally adjusted.
- Direction
- lower is better
- Geography level
- country
- Slug
- us-unemployment-rate
Economy & Capital
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
- Classification
- Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
- Source organization
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRED economic data (API)
- Series ID
UNRATElast fetch: ok- Source links
- Source homepage: https://fred.stlouisfed.org
- License and attribution
- License review requiredFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRED. Individual series carry their own originating-source license.
- Last source update
- 2026-09-04 08:27:31-05(source revision label as published by the provider)
- Last ingestion
- last successful runfresh
- Last run
- success2026-09-07 10:04 UTC
- Parser version
- fred-api/1.0.0
- Methodology version
- 1.0
- Quality and confidence
- Seasonal factors are revised each January for the previous five years.Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 100 percent.
- Revisions
- no observations ingested yet