Unemployment rate Amsterdam 2013-2022

In 2022 the unemployment rate in Amsterdam was 4.8 percent, a decrease of 1.8 percentage points compared to the previous year. This comes after an increase of the unemployment rate, as from 2019 to 2021, the rate increased from 5.3 percent to 6.6 percent. Before that, unemployment had decreased from 9.9 percent in 2013.

Is the unemployment rate similar between all provinces?

The unemployment rate was not similar for all provinces in 2020. The national average in the Netherlands was 3.5 percent. The province of Amsterdam lies in North-Holland, which saw the same unemployment rate in 2020 as the Dutch average of 3.5 percent, 1.8 percent lower than that of Amsterdam. The highest local unemployment rate was in the province of Groningen, which includes the city of Groningen, with a 4.5 percent unemployment rate, 0.6 percent more than any other province in the Netherlands. The lowest unemployment rate in 2020 was in Zeeland, which includes the city of Middelburg, with a mere three percent.

How do the unemployment rate trends of Amsterdam compare to the Netherlands?

The unemployment rate for the Netherlands has always followed a very similar trend to that of Amsterdam. The Netherlands saw high unemployment rates in 2005 and 2014, while Amsterdam's were high in 2004, 2005, and 2013. Notably, the unemployment rate for Amsterdam is consistently higher than in the Netherlands. The Dutch unemployment rate high was 5.87 percent in 2005, compared to an eight percent peak in Amsterdam at the same time. Similarly, Dutch unemployment peaked at 7.42 percent in 2014, while Amsterdam's height was 8.9 percent in 2013 and was hit harder than the rest of the country by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic than the Netherlands.