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unemployment

state of being without work and actively seeking work
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Summary

unemployment is a status[1]. unemployment draws 4,883 Wikipedia views per month (status category, ranking #4 of 12).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: way of life[3]
  • Subclass of: state[4], social issue[5]
  • Commons category: Unemployment[6]
  • Opposite of: employment[7]
  • ICPC 2 ID: Z06[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Unemployment[9]
  • Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Pax Leksikon[13]
  • Has effect: poverty[14], psychological stress[15]
  • Has characteristic: unemployment rate[16]
  • Practiced by: unemployed[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]

Why It Matters

unemployment has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] unemployment is known by 101 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . foodon.eu. foodon.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_unemployment_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{unemployment}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/unemployment}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-10}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13d ago · Mahir256 · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'ban', 'be', 'be_x_ol
    Pronunciation audio → —
    Sitelink count → 122
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Pronunciation audio: De-Arbeitslosigkeit.ogg"
  2. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → unemployment
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: unemployment, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289972713|unemployment (#289972713)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001874-nezamestnanost
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001874-nezamestnanost, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
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