title: Unemployment in France
text: # Unemployment in France
  
  Unemployment in France (French: chômage en France pronunciation (help·info)) discusses the causes and measures of French unemployment and strategies for reducing it.
  
  Pôle emploi appeared in 2008.
  
  France's unemployment rate increased to 8.60 % in September 2019, from the previously reported number of 8.50 % in June of the same year.
  
  In October 2020, Deutsche Welle reported that unemployment among Muslims in France was far higher at 14%, than the population at large (8%).
  
  