% of people aged 15+ - Source frequency: monthly · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's participation rate was 66.8% as of September 2026. The share of people aged 15 and over who are either working or actively looking for work. Participation gives essential context to unemployment: a falling jobless rate alongside falling participation can mean people are giving up rather than finding work. Data is sourced from ABS Labour Force (Cat. 6202.0) and updated monthly.
The share of people aged 15 and over who are either working or actively looking for work.
Participation gives essential context to unemployment: a falling jobless rate alongside falling participation can mean people are giving up rather than finding work.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Labour Force (Cat. 6202.0)), updated monthly. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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