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OECD Economic Outlook: unemployment rate

Unemployment as a percentage of the labour force (OECD measure UNR: "Unemployment rate"), for OECD members, G20 non-members and major aggregates. Includes the Outlook's two-year projections. Unit: percent of labour force (UNIT_MEASURE=PT_LF).

Source: OECD
Category: economics
Tags: unemploymentlabourmacrooecdforecast
Rows: 2,213
Date range: 1960-01-01 – 2027-01-01 (date)
Last refresh: 2026-09-21T18:39:46+00:00 (cadence: yearly)
Quality score: 92.5 / 100

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date	series_id	series_label	value
1964-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	1.38532629813771
1965-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	1.25951796069311
1966-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	1.55550066825146
1967-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	1.87023617613434
1968-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	1.81318966160194
1969-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	1.80710856002891
1970-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	1.64307830802919
1971-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	1.8951748142582
1972-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	2.59705404462671
1973-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	2.30110648536787
1974-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	2.66454979076346
1975-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	4.89266597634261
1976-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	4.76363946706876
1977-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	5.62022850399991
1978-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	6.29922975898581
1979-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	6.25418243627582
1980-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	6.09287280518977
1981-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	5.76496448911144
1982-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	7.17121523664445
1983-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	9.98279935360501
1984-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	8.98798949000735
1985-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	8.25247036734956
1986-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	8.06887284898525
1987-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	8.08416939271734
1988-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	7.20847829745534
1989-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	6.15212528244699
1990-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	6.95071627333237
1991-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	9.60700091843667
1992-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	10.7571541299854
1993-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	10.882634326121
1994-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	9.71211296729032
1995-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	8.47215748547095
1996-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	8.51530644854996
1997-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	8.36326290222905
1998-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	7.68391675236
1999-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	6.86852920813906
2000-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	6.27715603136103
2001-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	6.77260345581587
2002-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	6.3667084034907
2003-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	5.93048755918319
2004-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	5.39152631200027
2005-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	5.03239999636089
2006-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	4.77250518472388
2007-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	4.37037686739744
2008-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	4.2432500625647
2009-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	5.56977007308608
2010-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	5.20810993784982
2011-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	5.08312832601672
2012-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	5.22635476500363
2013-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	5.66911328498004
2014-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	6.06288282889515
2015-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	6.05706718945358
2016-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	5.7184506546772
2017-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	5.60505451388679
2018-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	5.30259392287642
2019-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	5.17334927146473
2020-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	6.47298102468784
2021-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	5.12297651665563
2022-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	3.7174978728515
2023-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	3.69530678574255
2024-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	4.01879153755741
2025-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	4.20460504937231
2026-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	4.48677660522758
2027-01-01	AUS.UNR	Australia	4.64874907936322
1969-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	1.88420923247606
1970-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	1.32256457704761
1971-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	1.20810842029002
1972-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	1.15374484529834
1973-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	1.07904486252793
1974-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	1.33842541463404
1975-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	1.76183074029855
1976-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	1.78635328980292
1977-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	1.62571054122447
1978-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	2.06415235561599
1979-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	2.07956922843202
1980-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	1.85736673968569
1981-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	2.53321282628731
1982-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	3.4856780950044
1983-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	4.13292398764587
1984-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	3.7873120276495
1985-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	3.59812292154674
1986-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	3.10364501712855
1987-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	3.78736267748879
1988-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	3.55192609998833
1989-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	3.14285577926619
1990-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	3.26904415106067
1991-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	3.50716709687011
1992-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	3.63979391695209
1993-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	4.27269761478424
1994-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	3.64859178858787
1995-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	3.76748599528839
1996-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	4.17980090837776
1997-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	4.30948319266109
1998-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	4.29190477312674
1999-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	3.72965538818531
2000-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	3.53461545955846
2001-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	3.59075924623732
2002-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	3.95205785140004
2003-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	4.28504743641502
2004-01-01	AUT.UNR	Austria	5.48843187660668

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Fields

Name	Type	Description	Unit / format	Nullable	Example values
`date`	date	Observation year (the TIME_PERIOD column of the OECD SDMX-CSV response), stored as the first day of the year.	Not documented by source	No	1964-01-01, 1965-01-01, 1966-01-01
`series_id`	varchar	SDMX series key (<REF_AREA>.<MEASURE>), e.g. 'USA.GDPV_ANNPCT': the unique identifier of the series in the OECD Economic Outlook dataflow.	Not documented by source	No	AUS.UNR, AUS.UNR, AUS.UNR
`series_label`	varchar	Economy name from the OECD CL_AREA codelist, e.g. 'United States'.	Not documented by source	No	Australia, Australia, Australia
`value`	double	Unemployment as a percentage of the labour force (OECD measure UNR: "Unemployment rate"), for OECD members, G20 non-members and major aggregates. Includes the Outlook's two-year projections. Unit: percent of labour force (UNIT_MEASURE=PT_LF).	Not documented by source	No	1.38532629813771, 1.25951796069311, 1.55550066825146

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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Economic Outlook provides twice-yearly analysis of major global economic trends with projections for output, employment, prices and current balances for member countries, G20 partners and key aggregates.
Provider site: https://data-explorer.oecd.org/
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