Switzerland Unemployment Rate
The share of people aged 15 and over who want a job and are actively looking, but can't find one.
5.0%
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Q2 1999 to Q2 2026
Source: FRED series LRUNTTTTCHQ156S · OECD, seasonally adjusted, quarterly. Note: the LRHUTTTT-prefixed series used on most other pages here is explicitly marked discontinued for Switzerland; this is the OECD's replacement series.
Switzerland Unemployment Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Switzerland, the unemployment rate rose by 0.3pp over the year to Q2 2026, from 4.8% in Q2 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 4.0% in Q2 2023 to 5.2% in Q2 2021.
Its average since Q2 1999 is 4.5%, and the latest reading is above that.
Switzerland is 33rd 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
- LRUNTTTTCHQ156S
- 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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