Quarterly unemployment rates in developed and emerging countries 2017-2024

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Feb 3, 2025

From the second quarter of 2017, Brazil was the country of those included in the chart with the highest unemployment rates. However, it has been decreasing constantly since the second quarter of 2021, reaching 6.4 percent in the third quarter of 2024. In the same quarter, Japan and Russia had the lowest unemployment rates of the countries included.

China does not release quarterly unemployment rate statistics anymore. Monthly unemployment data can be found here.

Quarterly unemployment rates in developed and emerging countries from Q1 2017 to Q4 2024

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Release date

February 2025

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

Q1 2017 to Q4 2024

Age group

15-74 years

Supplementary notes

*Estimates.
Data for China available here, Russia here, and for Brazil here.

The definitions of unemployment, as well as the age groups included for calculations, differ between the countries included in this statistic. If the source distinguishes between adjusted and unadjusted values, seasonally adjusted figures have been used.

Despite being one of the most important emerging markets, values for India have not been included as monthly or quarterly unemployment rates are not available.

From Q1 2022, data for China are registered from a survey.

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