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Unemployment Rate

Unemployment rate · Canada.

Friday 7 August14:30 CEST / 15:30 Kyiv

Reference period: 2026-07-31

ACTUAL6.4%Below forecast

FORECAST6.5%Forex Factory · calendar archive · historical forecast

PREVIOUS6.5%FXMacroData · archive, subject to revisions · 2026-06-30

01 / WHY IT MATTERS

What changes for traders

Official series archive as of the update date. Actual and historical Previous may include later revisions.

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02 / SCENARIOS

How to interpret the result

Below forecast

Below-forecast unemployment suggests a more resilient labour market than expected.

Next step

Wages, labour-force participation, unemployment and revisions to previous months.

03 / RELEASE HISTORY

Previous results

The same indicator and country

Release datePeriodActualForecastActual − Forecast

10/07/202606.20266.5%6.6%-0.1 pp

05/06/202605.20266.6%6.9%-0.3 pp

08/05/202604.20266.9%6.7%+0.2 pp

10/04/202603.20266.7%6.8%-0.1 pp

13/03/202602.20266.7%6.6%+0.1 pp

06/02/202601.20266.5%6.8%-0.3 pp

09/01/202612.20256.8%6.7%+0.1 pp

05/12/202511.20256.6%7.0%-0.4 pp

07/11/202510.20256.9%7.1%-0.2 pp

Period is the report month. Actual − Forecast measures deviation from expectations. pp means percentage points.

About the historical data

Forecast comes from a historical calendar or a pre-release capture. Actual may include subsequent revisions. A dash means no confirmed figure is available. Historical tables were retrieved after the releases and do not establish when a forecast first became available.

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