Unemployment In Usa 2024. Unemployment refers to the share of. Unemployment rate for 2021 was 5.35%, a 2.71% decline from 2020.
Unemployment rate for 2020 was 8.06%, a 4.39% increase from 2019. The unemployment rate for people age 16 and older was unchanged at 4.1 percent in october 2024, but higher than a year earlier (3.8 percent).