The Netherlands had the highest employment rate among European Union countries in 2025, at 82.5 percent, while Iceland had the highest employment rate among all European countries. The second highest employment rate in the EU was that of Malta, which had an employment rate of 79.9 percent. Italy reported the lowest employment rate in the EU at 62.7 percent.

The total employment rate in the European reached 71.2 percent in the second quarter of 2025, an increase on the previous quarter and amongst the highest employment rates in the union since 2005. There is a marked inequality between the male and female employment rates in the EU, with the male employment rate being approximately 75 percent, while the rate for females is around 67 percent. The gap between men and women has declined since 2005, when the gap was almost 15 percent, rather than the 10 percent it is today.

This dataset provides values for EMPLOYMENT RATE reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

Among European Union countries in July 2025, Spain had the highest unemployment rate at 10.4 percent, followed by Finland at 10 percent. By contrast, Malta has the lowest unemployment rate in Europe, at 2.6 percent. The overall rate of unemployment in the European Union was 5.9 percent in the same month - a historical low-point for unemployment in the EU, which had been at over 10 percent for much of the 2010s.

Unemployment Rate in European Union remained unchanged at 6 percent in October. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - European Union Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in member states of the European Union in July 2025. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Spain in July 2025 was 10.4 percent. The unemployment rate represents the share of the unemployed in all potential employees available to the job market. Unemployment rates in the EU The unemployment rate is an important measure of a country or region’s economic health, and despite unemployment levels in the European Union falling slightly from a peak in early 2013 , they remain high, especially in comparison to what the rates were before the worldwide recession started in 2008. This confirms the continuing stagnation in European markets, which hits young jobseekers particularly hard as they struggle to compete against older, more experienced workers for a job, suffering under jobless rates twice as high as general unemployment. Some companies, such as Microsoft and Fujitsu, have created thousands of jobs in some of the countries which have particularly dire unemployment rates, creating a beacon of hope. However, some industries such as information technology, face the conundrum of a deficit of qualified workers in the local unemployed work force, and have to hire workers from abroad instead of helping decrease the local unemployment rates. This skills mismatch has no quick solution, as workers require time for retraining to fill the openings in the growing science-, technology-, or engineering-based jobs, and too few students choose degrees that would help them obtain these positions. Worldwide unemployment also remains high, with the rates being worst in the Middle East and North Africa. Estimates by the International Labour Organization predict that the problem will stabilize in coming years, but not improve until at least 2017.

Full Time Employment in European Union increased to 165997.90 Thousand in the second quarter of 2025 from 164649.30 Thousand in the first quarter of 2025. This dataset provides - European Union Full Time Employment- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

European Union Employment Rate: EA 19: Female: Age 55 to 64 data was reported at 58.000 % in Mar 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 57.900 % for Dec 2022. European Union Employment Rate: EA 19: Female: Age 55 to 64 data is updated quarterly, averaging 48.600 % from Mar 2009 (Median) to Mar 2023, with 57 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 58.000 % in Mar 2023 and a record low of 36.400 % in Mar 2009. European Union Employment Rate: EA 19: Female: Age 55 to 64 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Eurostat. The data is categorized under Global Database’s European Union – Table EU.G009: Eurostat: Employment Rate.

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Youth Unemployment Rate in European Union remained unchanged at 14.80 percent in September. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - European Union Youth Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

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The indicator 'part-time employment' represents employees who work part-time as a percentage of total employment. The indicator is based on the EU Labour Force Survey.

Unemployment in the European Union has reached its low point in the twenty-first century in 2025. The share of the labour force out of work was slighly under 5.9 percent between January and July of that year, a marked decrease from its most recent peak of 7.8 percent in the Summer of 2020. While the jobs recovery has been strong in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic in the EU, this number is still far above the remarkably low rate in the United States, which has reached 4.1 percent in 2025. Nevertheless, this recent decline is a positive development for the EU countries, many of which have long suffered from chronic unemployment issues. In some regional labour markets in the EU, the issue is now less of people who can't find work, but employers who cannot find employees, leading to labour shortages. The sick men of Europe Several EU member states have long had high unemployment rates, with the large numbers of people in long-term unemployment being particularly concerning. Italy, France, Greece, Spain, and Portugal have all had double-digit unemployment rates for significant amounts of time during this period, with the ability of people to freely migrate to other EU countries for work only marginally decreasing this. While these countries have long dealt with these issues due to their declining legacy industries and the struggle of competing in a liberalized, globalized economy, their unemployment rates reached their highest points following the global financial crisis, great recession, and Eurozone crisis. These interconnected crises led to a period of prolonged stagnation in their economies, with unemployment reaching as high as 25 percent in Greece, the worst affected economy.

European Union - Employment rates of recent graduates was 82.40% in December of 2022, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for European Union - Employment rates of recent graduates - last updated from the EUROSTAT on October of 2025. Historically, European Union - Employment rates of recent graduates reached a record high of 82.40% in December of 2022 and a record low of 74.30% in December of 2013.

The section 'Labour mobility' provides demographical and labour statistics on people either born in European Union (EU) and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) area or having the citizenship of an EU/EFTA country and residing elsewhere on the EU and EFTA territories except their country of birth/citizenship. This implies aggregating the estimates coming from Labour Force Survey samples (EU-LFS) of all EU/EFTA countries except that of origin or nationality to find all the persons of a certain nationality or country of origin that reside elsewhere where the EU rules regarding the free movement of people apply. More specifically, they can be identified only if effectively a changed of residence implying crossing a border has taken place, meaning they reside (or intend to do so) in another country for at least 12 months. Short term movements are therefore not taken into account.

European Union Employment Rate: EU 27 excl UK: Female: Age 25 to 54 data was reported at 74.300 % in Dec 2020. This records an increase from the previous number of 73.700 % for Sep 2020. European Union Employment Rate: EU 27 excl UK: Female: Age 25 to 54 data is updated quarterly, averaging 70.900 % from Mar 2000 (Median) to Dec 2020, with 84 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 75.000 % in Dec 2019 and a record low of 64.700 % in Mar 2000. European Union Employment Rate: EU 27 excl UK: Female: Age 25 to 54 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Eurostat. The data is categorized under Global Database’s European Union – Table EU.G009: Eurostat: Employment Rate.

This dataset provides values for UNEMPLOYMENT RATE reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

This statistic shows the employment rate in the European Union from 2010 to 2023. In 2023, the employment rate in the EU amounted to 70.4 percent, compared to 69.8 percent in 2022.