Japan Employment Rate

Employment Rate in Japan increased to 60 percent in February from 59.70 percent in January of 2019. Employment Rate in Japan averaged 59.73 percent from 1980 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 63.50 percent in June of 1991 and a record low of 55.90 percent in January of 2012.

Employment Rate in Japan is expected to be 61.20 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Employment Rate in Japan to stand at 59.60 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the Japan Employment Rate is projected to trend around 60.50 percent in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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Japan Labour	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Unemployment Rate	2.30	2.50	5.50	1.00	percent	[+]
Employed Persons	67140.00	66650.00	67140.00	38370.00	Thousand	[+]
Unemployed Persons	1600.00	1720.00	3680.00	490.00	Thousand	[+]
Part Time Employment	7413.00	7129.00	7413.00	1988.00	Thousand	[+]
Full Time Employment	21774.00	22067.00	22384.00	19397.00	Thousand	[+]
Employment Rate	60.00	59.70	63.50	55.90	percent	[+]
Labor Force Participation Rate	61.40	61.20	74.00	58.50	percent	[+]
Youth Unemployment Rate	3.40	3.20	10.90	1.60	percent	[+]
Productivity	106.90	101.60	120.40	68.30	Index Points	[+]
Job Vacancies	997.45	990.91	1026.96	266.29	Thousand	[+]
Wages	296402.00	312860.00	883791.00	52914.00	JPY/Month	[+]
Wages in Manufacturing	330527.00	341922.00	868487.00	9785.00	JPY/Month	[+]
Wage Growth	-0.80	-0.60	35.02	-7.10	percent	[+]
Minimum Wages	874.00	848.00	874.00	663.00	JPY/Hour	[+]
Population	126.71	126.93	128.06	83.20	Million	[+]
Retirement Age Women	62.00	62.00	62.00	60.00		[+]
Retirement Age Men	62.00	62.00	62.00	60.00		[+]

In Japan, the employment rate measures the number of people who have a job as a percentage of the working age population. This page provides - Japan Employment Rate- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. Japan Employment Rate - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on April of 2019.

	Actual	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Dates	Unit	Frequency
	60.00	59.70	63.50	55.90	1980 - 2019	percent	Monthly	NSA

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Country	Last		Previous	Range
Mexico	96.70	Feb/19	96.43	97.23 : 93.58	%
Switzerland	80.50	Sep/18	79.9	81.3 : 76.9	%
Netherlands	77.70	Sep/18	77	77.7 : 63.5	%
Germany	76.30	Sep/18	75.4	76.3 : 63.6	%
United Kingdom	76.10	Jan/19	76.1	76.1 : 65.6	%
France	66.10	Dec/18	65.9	66.1 : 63.5	%
Spain	64.00	Dec/18	64.01	67.18 : 54.91	%
Australia	62.30	Mar/19	62.3	62.9 : 54	%
Canada	61.90	Mar/19	62	63.7 : 56	%
United States	60.60	Mar/19	60.7	64.7 : 55	%
South Korea	60.10	Dec/18	61.4	61.6 : 56.1	%
Japan	60.00	Feb/19	59.7	63.5 : 55.9	%
Russia	59.10	Feb/19	58.8	66.6 : 58.8	%
Italy	58.60	Feb/19	58.7	58.9 : 55.3	%
Brazil	53.90	Feb/19	54.2	57.3 : 53.1	%
Turkey	45.90	Jan/19	46.3	47.9 : 38.9	%
South Africa	43.34	Dec/18	43.1	46.17 : 41	%
Argentina	42.20	Dec/18	42.5	43.4 : 36.3	%