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Special Notices 4/25/2024

Data extracted on: May 17, 2025 (1:30:43 PM)

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey

Series Id:	LNS14000006
Seasonally Adjusted
Series title:	(Seas) Unemployment Rate - Black or African American
Labor force status:	Unemployment rate
Type of data:	Percent or rate
Age:	16 years and over
Race:	Black or African American

Graph of LNS14000006

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2015	10.3	10.1	9.9	9.7	10.3	9.7	9.1	9.4	9.3	9.0	9.4	8.5
2016	8.5	8.6	8.9	8.8	8.2	8.7	8.2	8.0	8.5	8.5	8.2	8.0
2017	7.5	8.0	7.8	7.7	7.7	6.9	7.3	7.7	7.2	7.6	7.5	6.7
2018	7.5	6.8	6.7	6.4	5.9	6.4	6.5	6.3	6.1	6.5	6.1	6.6
2019	7.0	7.2	6.7	6.7	6.1	5.8	5.7	5.3	5.3	5.5	5.5	6.0
2020	6.4	6.1	7.0	16.9	16.8	15.3	14.3	12.8	12.0	10.9	10.3	10.0
2021	9.4	9.9	9.7	10.2	9.0	9.1	8.1	8.6	7.7	7.6	6.4	7.0
2022	7.0	6.7	6.3	6.1	6.2	5.8	5.9	6.4	5.8	5.8	5.6	5.7
2023	5.4	5.8	5.0	4.8	5.7	6.0	5.7	5.3	5.7	5.9	5.8	5.2
2024	5.3	5.6	6.4	5.6	6.1	6.3	6.3	6.1	5.7	5.7	6.4	6.1
2025	6.2	6.0	6.2	6.3