Unemployment / Austria
Austria Unemployment
Austria unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 5.58%.
COUNTRY: Austria
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:45
GM ECONOMY RATING
Austria · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
53 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
7.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
13.0 / 20
External stability
6.0 / 15
Financial robustness
3.0 / 15
Structural stability
15.0 / 15
Future capacity
9.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Austria · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
5.58%
Previous
5.20%
Range avg.
5.38%
Rank
39
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CountryAustria
IndicatorUnemployment
5.58%2025 · Rank 39
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Austria recorded 5.58% for Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.38 percentage points, from 5.20% to 5.58%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (5.38%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 4.56% in 2019 and the high was 6.46% in 2021.
Comparison
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