Economic data

Unemployed persons as a percentage of the labour force, both sexes, OECD age code 15 years or over, from national labour force surveys on ICLS definitions. Only reference areas reviewed at 2026-10-13 are enrolled; each keeps its country note. OECD Data Terms section 3 permits commercial reuse with attribution except separately restricted or third-party-owned data; no additional restriction was identified in the pinned flow metadata reviewed 2026-10-13. Collection time is not an original publication timestamp. Source observation flags and reference periods are retained.

OECD (2026), Infra-annual labour statistics: monthly unemployment rate, https://data-explorer.oecd.org/?lc=en&df[ag]=OECD.SDD.TPS&df[id]=DSD_LFS@DF_IALFS_UNE_M&df[vs]=1.0 (accessed on 2026-11-09). Retain OECD attribution in further redistribution.

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Series-wide coverage: 2000-01-01 to 2026-09-01. SOTW publication: 2026-11-09T11:21:28.625304+00:00.

Acquisition and dataset-update dates do not establish original publication dates. This view shows current source readings. Use a recorded-state pin to replay SOTW’s archive from its activation boundary.

Same exact source series, unit, frequency and definition. National exceptions and source flags still apply.

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  "unit": "% of labour force",
  "dataset": "OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_LFS@DF_IALFS_UNE_M,1.0",
  "selection": {
    "AGE": "Y_GE15",
    "SEX": "_T",
    "FREQ": "M",
    "MEASURE": "UNE_LF_M",
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    "ADJUSTMENT": "Y",
    "UNIT_MEASURE": "PT_LF_SUB",
    "TRANSFORMATION": "_Z"
  },
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  "adjustment": "Calendar and seasonally adjusted",
  "source_unit": "PT_LF_SUB",
  "cohort_policy": "Pinned source-reference-area cohort reviewed against publisher metadata; no automatic country switching, backfilling, splicing or interpolation.",
  "structure_url": "https://sdmx.oecd.org/public/rest/v1/dataflow/OECD.SDD.TPS/DSD_LFS@DF_IALFS_UNE_M/1.0?references=all",
  "transformation": "_Z",
  "geography_notes": {
    "DEU": "Trend data labelled seasonally adjusted. At review these values equalled Eurostat's monthly estimate (une_rt_m, 12 of 12 months), and Eurostat states that Germany's seasonally adjusted figures are trend data (X13 ARIMA).",
    "FRA": "At review these values equalled Eurostat's monthly estimate (une_rt_m, 12 of 12 months), which Eurostat compiles from quarterly LFS levels and registered unemployment.",
    "GBR": "Rolling three-month estimate. The Office for National Statistics publishes three-month averages; the OECD labels each by its middle month, so 2026-06 is May to July 2026. The OECD age code is 15 or over; the ONS headline covers ages 16 and over, and which population the OECD applies is not stated."
  },
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  "source_attributes": {
    "BASE_PER": "",
    "UNIT_MULT": "0"
  },
  "calculation_origin": "OECD publisher values; no SOTW recomputation, rebasing or annualization",
  "cohort_reviewed_at": "2026-10-13",
  "reviewed_ref_areas": [
    "DEU",
    "FRA",
    "GBR",
    "JPN"
  ],
  "reviewed_code_labels": {
    "SEX/_T": "Total",
    "AGE/Y_GE15": "15 years or over",
    "ADJUSTMENT/Y": "Calendar and seasonally adjusted",
    "MEASURE/UNE_LF_M": "Monthly unemployment rate",
    "UNIT_MEASURE/PT_LF_SUB": "Percentage of labour force in the same subgroup"
  },
  "source_dataset_updated": "2026-11-09T02:01:25",
  "latest_period_floor_at_review": "2026-06",
  "publisher_dataset_description": "<p>The infra-annual dataflow on the monthly unemployment rate is a subset of the infra-annual labour statistics database, which contains predominantly monthly and quarterly statistics on the unemployed population by age groups (15+, 15-24, 25-54, 55-64, 15-64 and 15-74 where available) and sex and associated statistical methodological information and associated statistical methodological information, for the OECD member countries and for selected other economies. </p><p>The unemployment rate is calculated as the number of unemployed persons as a percentage of the labour force (i.e., the unemployed plus those in employment). The unemployed are persons in their working age who, in the reference period, do not have a job; are available for work; and, have taken specific steps to find a job. </p><p>Chile, Costa Rica, and the United Kingdom publish Labour Force Survey (LFS) data using a rolling quarter methodology. The OECD treats the middle month of the rolling quarter as the reference month. As a result, the publication of monthly LFS data for these countries may be delayed by one month or more relative to the OECD reference month.</p><p>The infra-annual labour statistics compiled for all OECD member countries, are drawn from Labour Force Surveys based on definition provided by the 19th Conference of Labour Statisticians in 2013. The uniform application of these definitions across all OECD member countries results in estimates that are internationally comparable.</p>"
}