Netherlands: Unemployment rate (monthly)
Unemployed people aged 15 and over as a percentage of the labour force, seasonally adjusted, on the ILO definition as harmonised by the OECD.
Official statisticSource figures as of October 16, 2026Sources & methods
- Period covered
- Jan 1983 – Aug 2026
- Source figures as of
- October 16, 2026
- Geography
- Netherlands
- Sector
- Whole economy (not a single sector)
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Transformations
- Views other than the level (changes, averages, volatility) are calculated by CK Economics from these figures
- Revisions
- Replaced with the source’s latest figures whenever it revises them.
- Data status
- Current
Key figures
CK estimate% of labour force · calculated by CK Economics from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development data
- Latest · Aug 2026
- 4
- +0.1 pp vs a year earlier1
- 5-year change
- −0.2 pp
- since Aug 20212
- 10-year change
- −2.8 pp
- since Aug 20162
- Record high
- 9.5
- Jan 1983 (and 12 other periods)3
- Record low
- 3.1
- Apr 2001 (and 7 other periods)3
- Where the latest ranks
- 15th pct.
- Higher than 15% of the other 523 observations since Jan 19834
- 1Latest observation against the observation one year earlier (for weekly data, the nearest within three days).
- 2Latest observation against the observation five and ten years earlier.
- 3Highest and lowest published observations across the full history shown.
- 4Share of the other published observations that are lower than the latest one, rounded down.
Methodology
Unemployed people aged 15 and over as a percentage of the labour force, seasonally adjusted, on the ILO definition as harmonised by the OECD. National statistics as compiled by the OECD. Read from the OECD's SDMX API, or from its DBnomics mirror when the OECD's API is unavailable; the series' source note says which. Source series DSD_LFS@DF_IALFS_UNE_M/NLD.UNE_LF_M.PT_LF_SUB._Z.Y._T.Y_GE15._Z.M. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
Source
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD Data Explorer (OECD, retrieved 2026-10-19). https://sdmx.oecd.org/public/rest/data/OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_LFS@DF_IALFS_UNE_M,/NLD.UNE_LF_M.PT_LF_SUB._Z.Y._T.Y_GE15._Z.M
All data
| Period | Value | Change y/y |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | 4 | +0.1 pp |
| Jul 2026 | 4 | +0.2 pp |
| Jun 2026 | 3.8 | 0 pp |
| May 2026 | 3.9 | +0.1 pp |
| Apr 2026 | 3.9 | +0.1 pp |
| Mar 2026 | 4 | +0.1 pp |
| Feb 2026 | 4.1 | +0.3 pp |
| Jan 2026 | 4 | +0.2 pp |
| Dec 2025 | 4 | +0.3 pp |
| Nov 2025 | 4 | +0.3 pp |
| Oct 2025 | 4 | +0.3 pp |
| Sep 2025 | 4 | +0.3 pp |
| Aug 2025 | 3.9 | +0.2 pp |
| Jul 2025 | 3.8 | +0.2 pp |
| Jun 2025 | 3.8 | +0.2 pp |
| May 2025 | 3.8 | +0.2 pp |
| Apr 2025 | 3.8 | +0.1 pp |
| Mar 2025 | 3.9 | +0.3 pp |
| Feb 2025 | 3.8 | +0.1 pp |
| Jan 2025 | 3.8 | +0.2 pp |
| Dec 2024 | 3.7 | +0.1 pp |
| Nov 2024 | 3.7 | +0.2 pp |
| Oct 2024 | 3.7 | +0.1 pp |
| Sep 2024 | 3.7 | 0 pp |