United States Employment Rate
United States employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 59.11%.
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Interpretation
United States recorded 59.11% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.35 percentage points, from 59.47% to 59.11%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (59.27%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 56.60% in 2020 and the high was 60.54% in 2019.