WorldPulse

United States Employment Rate

us-employment-population-ratio

Subject

United States

Metric

Employment Rate

Data Points

936

Coverage

1948–2026

Latest Value

59.8

as of Jan 1, 2026

Time Series (936 observations)

Recent Data

DateValueType
Jan 1, 202659.8-
Dec 1, 202559.7-
Nov 1, 202559.6-
Sep 1, 202559.7-
Aug 1, 202559.6-
Jul 1, 202559.6-
Jun 1, 202559.7-
May 1, 202559.7-
Apr 1, 202560-
Mar 1, 202559.9-
Feb 1, 202559.9-
Jan 1, 202560.1-
Dec 1, 202459.9-
Nov 1, 202459.8-
Oct 1, 202460-

Showing most recent 15 of 936 observations

Data Source

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Retrieved via FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis).

API Access

# Fetch data by canonical code
GET /api/v1/timeseries/canonical/us-employment-population-ratio

# With date filters
GET /api/v1/timeseries/canonical/us-employment-population-ratio?start_date=2020-01-01

# Point-in-time reconstruction (Pro)
GET /api/v1/timeseries/canonical/us-employment-population-ratio?as_of=2024-01-01