diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
 
 - Handle empty environment variable as it they were not set. (#3764)
 
+### Removed
+
+- The deprecated `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric/unit` package is removed. (#3814)
+
 ## [1.14.0/0.37.0/0.0.4] 2023-02-27
 
 This release is the last to support [Go 1.18].
diff --git a/metric/unit/doc.go b/metric/unit/doc.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 051c2b58b..000000000
--- a/metric/unit/doc.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
-//
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-// Package unit provides units.
-//
-// Deprecated: This package will be removed in the next release. Use the
-// equivalent unit string instead.
-package unit // import "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric/unit"
diff --git a/metric/unit/unit.go b/metric/unit/unit.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e0647405..000000000
--- a/metric/unit/unit.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
-//
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-package unit // import "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric/unit"
-
-// Unit is a determinate standard quantity of measurement.
-//
-// Deprecated: This will be removed in the next release.
-type Unit string
-
-// Units defined by OpenTelemetry.
-const (
-	Dimensionless Unit = "1"
-	Bytes         Unit = "By"
-	Milliseconds  Unit = "ms"
-)