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Unemployment rates for foreign- and native-born workers in 2021 remained higher than in 2019
June 10, 2022
The unemployment rate for foreign-born workers decreased from 9.2 percent in 2020 to 5.6 percent in 2021. The unemployment rate for native-born workers followed a similar pattern, declining from 7.8 percent in 2020 to 5.3 percent in 2021. In 2021, both unemployment rates remained above their pre-pandemic rates in 2019.
Unemployment rates of foreign-born workers and native-born workers, 2019–21
Year
Foreign born
Native born
2019
3.1%
3.8%
2020
9.2
7.8
2021
5.6
5.3
In 2019, the unemployment rate for the foreign born (3.1 percent) was lower than that of the native born (3.8 percent). That trend had held from 2013 until 2020, when the foreign-born jobless rate (9.2 percent) rose above that of the native born (7.8 percent). In 2021, the foreign-born jobless rate (5.6 percent) remained slightly higher than that of the native born (5.3 percent).
United States Department of Labor
