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Unemployment rate in Norway

How hard is it to have a job there?

Norway's unemployment rate is 4.64 % — #50 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

4.64%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

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

Unemployment rate in Norway over time

4.68 %3.59 %2.49 %4.68 % · 20162.49 % · 20072000: 3.46 %2001: 3.74 %2002: 4.02 %2003: 4.22 %2004: 4.26 %2005: 4.38 %2006: 3.40 %2007: 2.49 %2008: 2.52 %2009: 3.10 %2010: 3.53 %2011: 3.20 %2012: 3.13 %2013: 3.42 %2014: 3.49 %2015: 4.30 %2016: 4.68 %2017: 4.16 %2018: 3.80 %2019: 3.68 %2020: 4.42 %2021: 4.36 %2022: 3.23 %2023: 3.57 %2024: 4.00 %2025: 4.64 %2000201220254.64 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#50 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
60 %
74 of 124 countries
Latest move
▲ 0.64 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
0.04 pp
peak 4.68 % in 2016
Full series
▲ 1.18 pp
since 2000

In Europe: #13 of 36vs median 5.25 %: −0.62 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 %Norway: ahead of 60 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentNorway 4.64 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Norway is ahead of 60 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Norway
48 China4.62 %−0.02 pp
49 Ireland4.63 %−0.00 pp
50 Norway4.64 %—
51 United Kingdom4.75 %+0.11 pp
52 Kazakhstan4.77 %+0.13 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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