In 2022, the unemployment rate in the Netherlands was around *** percent. Unemployment peaked in 2014. At the height of the financial crisis, the annual unemployment rate in the country reached *** percent. After 2014, unemployment decreased again year on year. In 2021, over *** thousand Dutch were unemployed.
 Unemployment forecasts 
 
According to a recent forecast, the unemployment rate in the country is expected rise again in the future. In 2020, the northern province of Groningen was forecast to have the highest unemployment rate, at *** percent. On the other side of the spectrum, in Zeeland the unemployment rate was predicted to be just percent that year.
Long-term and short-term unemployment
 
The majority of the unemployed in the Netherlands are looking for a new job for less than a year. At least *** percent of the population between 2010 and 2017, however, was long-term unemployed. In 2017, just over *** thousand people had been unemployed for 12 months or more. Long-term unemployment peaked in 2015, at nearly *** thousand.
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Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek. (February 16, 2023). Unemployment rate in the Netherlands from 2003 to 2022 [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from /statistics/539387/unemployment-rate-in-the-netherlands/
Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek. "Unemployment rate in the Netherlands from 2003 to 2022." Chart. February 16, 2023. ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Accessed July 27, 2026. /statistics/539387/unemployment-rate-in-the-netherlands/
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