Australia Unemployment Rate
The share of people aged 15 and over who want a job and are actively looking, but can't find one.
4.4%
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Q1 1970 to Q2 2026
Source: FRED series LRUNTTTTAUQ156S · seasonally adjusted, quarterly.
Australia Unemployment Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Australia, the unemployment rate rose by 0.3pp over the year to Q2 2026, from 4.2% in Q2 2025.
It is the highest reading since Q4 2021.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 3.5% in Q4 2022 to 5.2% in Q2 2021.
Its average since Q1 1970 is 6.1%, and the latest reading is below that.
Australia is 39th of 62 countries in our Unemployment Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- FRED
- Series
- LRUNTTTTAUQ156S
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Q2 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Quarterly, not the ABS's own more frequently published monthly figure.
Data refreshed 2026-10-28. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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