U.S. unemployment rate: seasonally adjusted February 2020
This statistic displays the seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in the United States on a monthly basis. Seasonal adjustment is a statistical method of removing the seasonal component of a time series that is used when analyzing non-seasonal trends. National unemployment was at 3.5 percent in February 2020.
U.S. monthly unemployment rate
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics - the principle fact-finding agency for the U.S. Federal Government in labor economics and statistics - unemployment declined from 2010 to 2019. A trend of decreasing unemployment followed after a high in 2010 resulting from the 2008 financial crisis. Unemployment fell from 9.6 percent in 2010 to 3.7 percent in 2019.
Additional statistics from the BLS paint an interesting picture of unemployment in the United States. In December 2019, the state with the highest (seasonally adjusted) unemployment rate was Alaska with 6.1 percent, followed by Mississippi, the District of Columbia, West Virginia, and Louisiana. Unemployment was the lowest in Vermont at 2.3 percent. Workers in the agriculture and related industry suffered the highest unemployment rate of any industry at 11 percent as of February 2020 (not seasonally adjusted).
U.S. monthly unemployment rate
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics - the principle fact-finding agency for the U.S. Federal Government in labor economics and statistics - unemployment declined from 2010 to 2019. A trend of decreasing unemployment followed after a high in 2010 resulting from the 2008 financial crisis. Unemployment fell from 9.6 percent in 2010 to 3.7 percent in 2019.
Additional statistics from the BLS paint an interesting picture of unemployment in the United States. In December 2019, the state with the highest (seasonally adjusted) unemployment rate was Alaska with 6.1 percent, followed by Mississippi, the District of Columbia, West Virginia, and Louisiana. Unemployment was the lowest in Vermont at 2.3 percent. Workers in the agriculture and related industry suffered the highest unemployment rate of any industry at 11 percent as of February 2020 (not seasonally adjusted).
