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Australia vs Japan: Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate)

Side-by-side comparison from World Bank Open Data.

In , Australia's Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) was 4.09, compared to Japan's 2.45. That makes Australia's value 66.9% higher than Japan's.

Australia

Rank #114 of 182 globally

Australia trend
Latest (2025)
4.09
Year-over-year
+3.8%
10-year change
-32.5%
Peak
6.39 (2020)
Trough
3.67 (2023)

Japan

Rank #159 of 182 globally

Japan trend
Latest (2025)
2.45
Year-over-year
-2.0%
10-year change
-27.6%
Peak
5.10 (2010)
Trough
2.35 (2019)

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Source: World Bank Open Data (SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS), CC BY 4.0.