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Unemployment: United States, OECD and Euro Area
Harmonised unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, monthly, % of the labour force
1 of 3 series is above their level a year earlier
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
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OECD Infra-annual Labour Statistics (CC BY 4.0). The OECD aggregate starts in 2001. The U.S. rate is the Bureau of Labor Statistics rate as the OECD republishes it.
Unemployment in the United States, across the OECD and in the euro area since 2001. The euro area ran well above the other two through the debt crisis of the early 2010s; the gap has narrowed since.
What this chart reads
- United States · Unemployment Rate (OECD Harmonised, Monthly)as “United States”latest 2026-09-01
- OECD · Unemployment Rate (OECD, Monthly)as “OECD”behindlatest 2026-08-01
- Euro Area · Unemployment Rate (OECD, Monthly)as “Euro area”behindlatest 2026-08-01
Sources
United States · Unemployment Rate (OECD Harmonised, Monthly). Source: OECD, Infra-annual Labour Statistics, Monthly unemployment rates (dataflow OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_LFS@DF_IALFS_UNE_M), measure UNE_LF_M, % of labour force, calendar and seasonally adjusted, total, 15 years or over, monthly: https://data-explorer.oecd.org. Palanor reads it every day. Licence: OECD terms and conditions § 3, "you can extract from, download, copy, adapt, print, distribute, share and embed Data for any purpose, even for commercial use", with credit to the OECD (CC BY 4.0). Attribution: OECD.
OECD · Unemployment Rate (OECD, Monthly). Source: OECD, Infra-annual Labour Statistics, Monthly unemployment rates (dataflow OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_LFS@DF_IALFS_UNE_M), measure UNE_LF_M, % of labour force, calendar and seasonally adjusted, total, 15 years or over, monthly: https://data-explorer.oecd.org. Palanor reads it every day. Licence: OECD terms and conditions § 3, "you can extract from, download, copy, adapt, print, distribute, share and embed Data for any purpose, even for commercial use", with credit to the OECD (CC BY 4.0). Attribution: OECD.
Euro Area · Unemployment Rate (OECD, Monthly). Source: OECD, Infra-annual Labour Statistics, Monthly unemployment rates (dataflow OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_LFS@DF_IALFS_UNE_M), measure UNE_LF_M, % of labour force, calendar and seasonally adjusted, total, 15 years or over, monthly: https://data-explorer.oecd.org. Palanor reads it every day. Licence: OECD terms and conditions § 3, "you can extract from, download, copy, adapt, print, distribute, share and embed Data for any purpose, even for commercial use", with credit to the OECD (CC BY 4.0). Attribution: OECD.
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