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Unemployment rate in Netherlands

How hard is it to have a job there?

Netherlands's unemployment rate is 3.87 % — #42 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

3.87%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

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

Unemployment rate in Netherlands over time

7.42 %4.77 %2.12 %7.42 % · 20142.12 % · 20012000: 2.73 %2001: 2.12 %2002: 2.55 %2003: 3.59 %2004: 4.65 %2005: 5.87 %2006: 5.01 %2007: 4.15 %2008: 3.66 %2009: 4.35 %2010: 4.99 %2011: 4.98 %2012: 5.82 %2013: 7.24 %2014: 7.42 %2015: 6.87 %2016: 6.01 %2017: 4.84 %2018: 3.83 %2019: 3.38 %2020: 3.82 %2021: 4.21 %2022: 3.53 %2023: 3.54 %2024: 3.70 %2025: 3.87 %2000201220253.87 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#42 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
66 %
82 of 124 countries
Latest move
▲ 0.17 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
3.54 pp
peak 7.42 % in 2014
Full series
▲ 1.15 pp
since 2000

In Europe: #10 of 36vs median 5.25 %: −1.38 pp (better)

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 %Netherlands: ahead of 66 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentNetherlands 3.87 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Netherlands is ahead of 66 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Netherlands
40 Malaysia3.76 %−0.11 pp
41 Bangladesh3.78 %−0.10 pp
42 Netherlands3.87 %—
43 Sri Lanka4.00 %+0.13 pp
44 Australia4.09 %+0.22 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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