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US Unemployment Rate, 1947-2018

Posted on May 24, 2018 (June 24, 2020) by ProCon.org

The annual unemployment rate when records began in 1947 was 3.9%. In 2017 it was 4.4%. See 70 years worth of annual and monthly unemployment rates in our updated resource.

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