Japan Unemployment Rate
The share of people who want a job and are actively looking, but can't find one.
2.5%
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Jan 1970 to Aug 2026
Source: FRED series LRHUTTTTJPM156S · seasonally adjusted (OECD).
Japan Unemployment Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Japan, the unemployment rate fell by 0.1pp over the year to Aug 2026, from 2.6% in Aug 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 2.4% in Sep 2024 to 2.8% in Aug 2021.
Its average since Jan 1970 is 3.0%, and the latest reading is below that.
Japan is 60th 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
- OECD via FRED
- Series
- LRHUTTTTJPM156S
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Aug 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-10-28. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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