Belgium Unemployment Rate
The share of people aged 15 to 74 in the labour force who want a job and are actively looking, but can't find one.
5.9%
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Apr 1986 to Aug 2026
Source: Eurostat une_rt_m · unemployment rate, ILO definition, ages 15 to 74, seasonally adjusted, monthly.
Belgium Unemployment Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Belgium, the unemployment rate fell by 0.2pp over the year to Aug 2026, from 6.1% in Aug 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 5.2% in Feb 2022 to 6.4% in Aug 2021.
Its average since Apr 1986 is 7.7%, and the latest reading is below that.
Belgium is 16th of 36 countries in our Unemployment Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- Eurostat
- Series
- une_rt_m
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Aug 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-10-07. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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