Key data points
Last release
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Observation period
Sep 2024
Next release
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Forecast
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Highest
5.50% on Jul 31, 2009
Lowest
1.00% on Mar 31, 1970
About Japan unemployment rate
In Japan, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.
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Frequently Asked Questions
To calculate Japan unemployment rate you need to take the number of the country residents without a job and looking for work divided by the total number of residents in the labor force.
The lowest ever Japan unemployment rate is 1.00%.
The highest figure Japan unemployment rate has ever reached is 5.50%.
Last month Japan unemployment rate was 2.40%, and the month before that it amounted to 2.50%.