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Japan Unemployment Rate 1990s

Unemployment as % of total labor force · World Bank
3.04% decade average (1990-1999)

Japan's unemployment rate during the 1990s ranged from 2.06% (1991) to 4.68% (1999), averaging 3.04% over 10 years of data.

1990s Data
YearValueChangeRank
1990 2.10% −0.15pp 8th
1991 2.06% −0.04pp 31st
1992 2.16% +0.07pp 29th
1993 2.54% +0.39pp 29th
1994 2.89% +0.39pp 31st
1995 3.15% +0.26pp 37th
1996 3.38% +0.23pp 41st
1997 3.37% +0.01pp 43rd
1998 4.08% +0.68pp 50th
1999 4.68% +0.58pp 60th