Norway Unemployment Rate
The share of people aged 15 and over who want a job and are actively looking, but can't find one.
4.6%
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Q1 1989 to Q2 2026
Source: FRED series LRHUTTTTNOQ156S · OECD harmonized, seasonally adjusted, quarterly.
Norway Unemployment Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Norway, the unemployment rate fell by 0.2pp over the year to Q2 2026, from 4.8% in Q2 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 3.1% in Q2 2022 to 5.0% in Q2 2021.
Its average since Q1 1989 is 4.3%, and the latest reading is above that.
Norway is 38th 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
- LRHUTTTTNOQ156S
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Q2 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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