Unemployment rate for people with a disability declines to 7.3 percent in 2019

The unemployment rate for people with a disability, at 7.3 percent in 2019, declined by 0.7 percentage point from the previous year. The jobless rate for people with a disability has trended down since 2011.

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Chart Data Selected labor market measures for people with and without a disability, 2009–19 annual averages Year With a disability, unemployment rate With a disability, employment–population ratio With a disability, labor force participation rate With no disability, unemployment rate With no disability, employment–population ratio With no disability, labor force participation rate 2009 14.5% 19.2% 22.4% 9.0% 64.5% 70.9% 2010 14.8 18.6 21.8 9.4 63.5 70.1 2011 15.0 17.8 20.9 8.7 63.6 69.7 2012 13.4 17.8 20.6 7.9 63.9 69.4 2013 13.2 17.6 20.3 7.1 64.0 68.9 2014 12.5 17.1 19.5 5.9 64.6 68.7 2015 10.7 17.5 19.5 5.1 65.0 68.5 2016 10.5 17.9 20.0 4.6 65.3 68.5 2017 9.2 18.7 20.6 4.2 65.7 68.6 2018 8.0 19.1 20.8 3.7 65.9 68.4 2019 7.3 19.3 20.8 3.5 66.3 68.7

The employment–population ratio (19.3 percent) and the labor force participation rate (20.8 percent) for people with a disability showed little or no movement from 2018 to 2019. Both measures generally have trended up since around 2014, however.

These data are from the Current Population Survey. For more information, see “Persons with a Disability: Labor Force Characteristics — 2019.” For more statistics on people with a disability, see the Disability section of our Demographics page.