The Unemployment API provides historical, current, and projected future unemployment statistics about every country in the world.
https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/unemployment
Get unemployment data for a given country. Returns historical, current and forecast unemployment statistics.
At least one of the following parameters must be set: country, year
country optionalCountry name (case-insensitive) or 2-letter ISO-3166 alpha-2 code of the country. E.g. Canada or CA.
year optionalYear for which to retrieve unemployment data.
X-Api-Key requiredAPI Key associated with your account.
https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/unemployment?country=CanadaHeaders
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[
{
"country": "CAN",
"year": 1980,
"unemployment_rate": 7.5
},
{
"country": "CAN",
"year": 1981,
"unemployment_rate": 7.6
},
{
"country": "CAN",
"year": 1982,
"unemployment_rate": 11.1
},
...
]1
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import requests
api_url = 'https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/unemployment?country=Canada'
response = requests.get(api_url, headers={'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'})
if response.status_code == requests.codes.ok:
print(response.text)
else:
print("Error:", response.status_code, response.text)If your programming language is not listed in the Code Example above, you can still make API calls by using a HTTP request library written in your programming language and following the above documentation.