Employment Rate / Japan
Japan Employment Rate
Japan employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 61.89%.
COUNTRY: Japan
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-07 05:09:26
GM ECONOMY RATING
Japan · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
A
81 / 100
Strong stability
Fiscal stability
n/a
Macroeconomic stability
14.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
15.0 / 15
Structural stability
15.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 76% of weighted inputs available.
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Japan · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
Latest
61.89%
Previous
61.72%
Range avg.
60.36%
Rank
33
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61.89%2025 · Rank 33
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Japan recorded 61.89% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.18 percentage points, from 61.72% to 61.89%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (60.36%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 58.11% in 2016 and the high was 61.89% in 2025.
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