Employment, US and the world.
Headline labor metrics from official agencies, charted under one roof. The US story sits up top, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics at monthly cadence. Below it, the rest of the world, stitched together from OECD, Eurostat, and the World Bank, one country card at a time.
US employment
Headline national labor metrics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, updated monthly. Drop down to a state for the matching BLS LAUS series, or flip the segmented control to switch metrics.
Unemployment rate over time
0 monthly points, BLS series .
International employment
OECD members at monthly cadence, EU and EFTA via Eurostat, and the rest of the world via the World Bank's WDI series. Pick a country to open its dedicated page with the full chart and the country profile.
Cross-country snapshot
Countries shaded by the latest unemployment rate. Click a country to open its detail page.
Methodology
Series IDs, agency sources, and refresh cadence. We unify every series under a common metric kind so a chart looks the same whether the underlying agency is BLS, OECD, Eurostat, or the World Bank.
US national · Bureau of Labor Statistics
- LNS14000000 Civilian unemployment rate (16+, seasonally adjusted)
- LNS11300000 Labor force participation rate
- LNS12300000 Employment population ratio
- JTS000000000000000JOL Job openings, total nonfarm (JOLTS)
- JTS000000000000000HIL Hires, total nonfarm
- JTS000000000000000QUR Quits rate, total nonfarm
- JTS000000000000000LDR Layoffs and discharges rate, total nonfarm
US states · BLS LAUS
- LAUST<FIPS>0000000000003 State-level unemployment rate (seasonally adjusted)
OECD member countries
- DSD_KEI@DF_KEI Harmonised unemployment rate, monthly, % of labour force (UNEMP / PT_LF)
EU + EFTA · Eurostat
- une_rt_m Unemployment rate, monthly (% of active population)
- lfsi_emp_q · EMP_LFS Employment rate, quarterly (% of working-age population employed)
- lfsi_emp_q · ACT Labour-force participation, quarterly (activity rate)
Rest of world · World Bank WDI
- SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS Unemployment, total (% of total labour force), annual
Daily refresh across every source. BLS releases monthly values on a fixed calendar (first Friday for jobs, JOLTS lags by ~6 weeks); Eurostat and OECD update on a rolling basis; World Bank WDI ships annual values, so its lines look stepwise. Re-pulls during each agency's revision window refresh any updated values via composite-id upsert. The cross-country snapshot prefers a country's most recent monthly source over its annual WDI line whenever both exist.