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Unemployment API

The Unemployment API provides historical, current, and projected future unemployment statistics about every country in the world.

API Status

Online - All Systems Operational

/v1/unemployment GET

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/unemployment

Get unemployment data for a given country. Returns historical, current and forecast unemployment statistics.

Parameters

At least one of the following parameters must be set: country, year

  • country  optional

    Country name (case-insensitive) or 2-letter ISO-3166 alpha-2 code of the country. E.g. Canada or CA.

  • year  optional

    Year for which to retrieve unemployment data.

Headers

  • X-Api-Key  required

    API Key associated with your account.

Sample Request Live Demo!

country
https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/unemployment?country=Canada

Headers

X-Api-KeyLog in or sign up to get your API Key

Sample Response

JSON
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 [ { "country": "CAN", "year": 1980, "unemployment_rate": 7.5 }, { "country": "CAN", "year": 1981, "unemployment_rate": 7.6 }, { "country": "CAN", "year": 1982, "unemployment_rate": 11.1 }, ... ]

Code Examples

1 2 curl -X GET "https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/unemployment?country=United%20States" \ -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

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.