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

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

In , France's Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) was 7.54, compared to Japan's 2.45. That makes France's value 207.7% higher than Japan's.

France

Rank #53 of 182 globally

France trend
Latest (2025)
7.54
Year-over-year
+1.9%
10-year change
-27.2%
Peak
10.35 (2015)
Trough
7.30 (2022)

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.