Key data points
Last release
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Observation period
Q2 2024
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Forecast
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Highest
10.70% on Jun 30, 1997
Lowest
3.20% on Mar 31, 1975
About France unemployment rate
In France, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.
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Frequently Asked Questions
To calculate France unemployment rate you need to take the number of the country residents without a job and looking for work divided by the total number of residents in the labor force.
The lowest ever France unemployment rate is 3.20%.
The highest figure France unemployment rate has ever reached is 10.70%.
Last quarter France unemployment rate was 7.30%, and the quarter before that it amounted to 7.50%.