Rank State Unemployment rate (August 2020)[1] 1 Bremen 12.0% 2 Berlin 10.7% 3 Hamburg 8.4% 3 North Rhine-Westphalia 8.4% 5 Saxony-Anhalt 8.1% 6 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 7.9% East Germany 7.8% 7 Saarland 7.8% 8 Saxony 6.5% 9 Thuringia 6.4% 9 Brandenburg 6.4% 11 Lower Saxony 6.3% 12 Schleswig-Holstein 6.2% West Germany 6.1% 13 Hesse 6.0% 13 Rhineland-Palatinate 5.7% 15 Baden-Württemberg 4.6% 16 Bavaria 4.1% Germany 6.4%