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Unemployment rate in Canada

How hard is it to have a job there?

Canada's unemployment rate is 6.91 % — #86 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

6.91%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

Source: World Bank open data (GDP growth, GDP/capita, unemployment, government debt)

Unemployment rate in Canada over time

9.66 %7.47 %5.28 %9.66 % · 20205.28 % · 20222000: 6.83 %2001: 7.22 %2002: 7.67 %2003: 7.57 %2004: 7.18 %2005: 6.76 %2006: 6.48 %2007: 6.16 %2008: 6.28 %2009: 8.46 %2010: 8.18 %2011: 7.64 %2012: 7.39 %2013: 7.14 %2014: 7.02 %2015: 6.95 %2016: 7.04 %2017: 6.43 %2018: 5.84 %2019: 5.69 %2020: 9.66 %2021: 7.53 %2022: 5.28 %2023: 5.42 %2024: 6.35 %2025: 6.91 %2000201220256.91 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#86 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
31 %
38 of 124 countries
Latest move
▲ 0.56 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
2.75 pp
peak 9.66 % in 2020
Full series
▲ 0.08 pp
since 2000

In Americas: #17 of 27vs median 5.25 %: +1.65 pp (worse)

Among 124 countries

6 of 124 countries between 0.78 % and 1.53 %6 of 124 countries between 1.53 % and 2.28 %12 of 124 countries between 2.28 % and 3.03 %16 of 124 countries between 3.03 % and 3.78 %7 of 124 countries between 3.78 % and 4.53 %15 of 124 countries between 4.53 % and 5.28 %14 of 124 countries between 5.28 % and 6.02 %7 of 124 countries between 6.02 % and 6.77 %6 of 124 countries between 6.77 % and 7.52 %2 of 124 countries between 7.52 % and 8.27 %10 of 124 countries between 8.27 % and 9.02 %3 of 124 countries between 9.02 % and 9.77 %3 of 124 countries between 9.77 % and 10.52 %2 of 124 countries between 10.52 % and 11.27 %3 of 124 countries between 11.27 % and 12.02 %1 of 124 countries between 12.02 % and 12.77 %1 of 124 countries between 12.77 % and 13.51 %2 of 124 countries between 13.51 % and 14.26 %1 of 124 countries between 14.26 % and 15.01 %2 of 124 countries between 15.01 % and 15.76 %1 of 124 countries between 16.51 % and 17.26 %4 of 124 countries between 18.01 % and 18.76 %median 5.23 %Canada: ahead of 31 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentCanada 6.91 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Canada is ahead of 31 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Canada
84 Egypt6.78 %−0.13 pp
85 Costa Rica6.84 %−0.06 pp
86 Canada6.91 %—
87 Tajikistan6.93 %+0.02 pp
88 Argentina7.14 %+0.24 pp

Unemployment, share of the labour force (World Bank / ILO estimate).

How to read this figure

Share of the labour force without work but actively seeking it (World Bank / ILO harmonised estimate). People outside the labour force — students, carers, the discouraged — are not counted.

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