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The second shock was bigger. The recovery took a third as long.

US unemployment rate, %, monthly, seasonally adjusted · Jan 2000 to Aug 2026

Annotated line
0481216200020052010201520202025
  1. Oct 2009 · 10.0% The Great Recession peaks
  2. Mar 2017 · 4.4% Back to where it started, 7 years 5 months after the peak
  3. Apr 2020 · 14.8% The highest reading since the series began in 1948
  4. Jul 2022 · 3.5% Back to the pre-pandemic rate in 27 months
Source: FRED · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · series UNRATE · retrieved 2026-09-21
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Who is ahead, year by year

Bar race
Series A
22
Series B
32
Series C
18
Series D
28
Series E
22
Series F
12
An animated bar race showing six series changing rank over time.

Illustrative numbers · a real race cites its own dataset

Who is gaining, and how fast

Line race
  • Series A46
  • Series B24
  • Series C26
An animated line race showing three series trading places over time.

Illustrative numbers · a real race cites its own dataset

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  • Slopegraph
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  • Small multiples
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  • Stacked bar
    What a total is made of.
  • Scatter
    Whether two things move together.
  • Heatmap
    A grid of values: places by years, say.
  • Bar race
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  • Line race
    Several lines, drawn as the years go by.
Where the numbers come from

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  • FRED
  • World Bank
  • BLS
  • BEA
  • US Census
  • EIA
  • IMF
  • OECD
  • WHO
  • NOAA
  • and 6 more
The chart at the top of this page
Source
FRED · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Series
UNRATE
Range
Jan 2000 to Aug 2026
Monthly readings
319
Retrieved
2026-09-21

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