Key data points
Last release
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Observation period
Apr 2025
Next release
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Forecast
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Highest
7.90 % on Feb 28, 2014
Lowest
2.90 % on Mar 31, 2020
About Netherlands unemployment rate
In Netherlands, 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 Netherlands 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 Netherlands unemployment rate is 2.90%.
The highest figure Netherlands unemployment rate has ever reached is 7.90%.
Last month Netherlands unemployment rate was 3.80%, and the month before it reached 3.90%.