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Japan Unemployment Rate 2000s

Unemployment as % of total labor force · World Bank
4.67% decade average (2000-2009)

Japan's unemployment rate during the 2000s ranged from 3.89% (2007) to 5.39% (2002), averaging 4.67% over 10 years of data.

2000s Data
YearValueChangeRank
2000 4.75% +0.08pp 65th
2001 5.02% +0.29pp 71st
2002 5.39% +0.34pp 74th
2003 5.25% −0.11pp 68th
2004 4.73% −0.51pp 62nd
2005 4.45% −0.29pp 57th
2006 4.19% −0.23pp 58th
2007 3.89% −0.23pp 56th
2008 4.00% +0.17pp 58th
2009 5.07% +1.09pp 63rd