Germany vs Japan: Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate)
Side-by-side comparison from World Bank Open Data.
In , Germany's Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) was 3.71, compared to Japan's 2.45. That makes Germany's value 51.4% higher than Japan's.
Germany
Rank #120 of 182 globally
- Latest (2025)
- 3.71
- Year-over-year
- +9.1%
- 10-year change
- -19.5%
- Peak
- 10.28 (2006)
- Trough
- 3.07 (2023)
Japan
Rank #159 of 182 globally
- Latest (2025)
- 2.45
- Year-over-year
- -2.0%
- 10-year change
- -27.6%
- Peak
- 5.10 (2010)
- Trough
- 2.35 (2019)
Other Germany comparisons
Source: World Bank Open Data (SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS), CC BY 4.0.