Quarterly unemployment rate in Norway 2018-2021, by gender

There is a larger share of unemployed men than women in Norway. Except for one quarter, the proportion of unemployed men was consistently higher than that of women. The unemployment rates peaked for both genders in the third quarter of 2020, due to the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19). During that quarter, 5.6 percent males and 5.1 percent females were unemployed in Norway. In the last quarter of 2021, the rates had dropped to 3.6 percent unemployed males and 3.2 percent unemployed females.