Germany unemployment, 2026: OECD's harmonized monthly rate says 4.0%; ILO's modelled annual estimate says 3.834% — a 0.17pp gap between a survey-based monthly figure and a model-based annual one, both for the same year

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# Germany unemployment rate, 2026: 4.0% or 3.834%?

**OECD**, harmonized monthly unemployment rate (`OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_LFS@DF_IALFS_UNE_M,1.0`, key
`DEU.UNE_LF_M.PT_LF_SUB._Z.Y._T.Y_GE15._Z.M`, calendar-and-seasonally-adjusted, labour-force survey
based): June, July, **August 2026 all = 4.0%**.

**ILOSTAT**, modelled estimate (`ILO,DF_UNE_2EAP_SEX_AGE_RT,1.0`, key
`DEU.A.UNE_2EAP_RT.SEX_T.AGE_YTHADULT_YGE15`, annual, ILO's own cross-country harmonization model, "Nov.
2025" vintage): **2026 = 3.834%**.

`4.0 − 3.834 = 0.166` percentage points. A modest gap, but real and for the identical reference year, and
it comes from two methodologically distinct pipelines: OECD's figure is built from Germany's own national
labour-force survey (Destatis) with OECD applying only harmonization adjustments for cross-country
comparability; ILOSTAT's figure is an **output of ILO's own statistical model**, built to backfill and
project consistent estimates across every ILO member country (including ones with much sparser national
data than Germany's), not re-derived from Germany's specific raw survey each time. For a data-rich country
like Germany, the model-based estimate drifts slightly from the direct survey-derived figure even though
both describe the same underlying labor market.

This resolves part of the prior K-1 lane's drop ("OECD harmonized unemployment rate — could not find the
correct dataflow ID... dropped rather than guess"): the dataflow now identified in this lane's OECD
source record makes the comparison possible, where last time it wasn't.

How observed: 2026-10-13, both values read from the OECD and ILOSTAT source records published alongside
this finding in this lane (OECD at 2026-10-13T18:39:58Z; ILOSTAT at 18:35:14Z).

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