Unemployment Rate In the Euro Area increased to 6.30 percent in August from 6.20 percent in July of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Euro Area Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

View monthly updates and historical trends for Eurozone Unemployment Rate (Trend). Source: Eurostat. Track economic data with YCharts analytics.

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.

According to the projections of the staff of the Eurosystem - the group of central banks of the countries which use the Euro as their currency - the unemployment rate in the Eurozone is set to increase slightly in 2024, rising from 6.5 to 6.6 percent. In the years following, the unemployment rate of the Eurozone is then projected to slowly decline, reaching 6.4 percent in 2026.

Unemployment Rate in European Union remained unchanged at 5.90 percent in August. 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.

Euro Area - Unemployment rate was 6.40% in December of 2024, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Euro Area - Unemployment rate - last updated from the EUROSTAT on October of 2025. Historically, Euro Area - Unemployment rate reached a record high of 12.20% in December of 2013 and a record low of 6.40% in December of 2024.

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.

Graph and download economic data for Harmonised Unemployment - Monthly Rates: Total: All Persons for the Euro Area (19 Countries) (LRHUTTTTEZM156S) from Jul 1990 to Jan 2023 about Euro Area, harmonized, Europe, persons, unemployment, and rate.

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.

Youth Unemployment Rate in European Union increased to 14.60 percent in August from 14.40 percent in July of 2025. 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.

The seasonally adjusted youth unemployment rate (under 25 years) in the European Union and the Euro area has fluctuated from August 2022 to August 2025. Over the past year, the EU's youth unemployment rate decreased from 15.2 percent in August 2024 to 14.6 percent in August 2025.

Graph and download economic data for Youth Unemployment Rate for the Euro Area (SLUEM1524ZSEMU) from 1991 to 2024 about Euro Area, Europe, unemployment, and rate.

View monthly updates and historical trends for European Union Unemployment Rate. Source: Eurostat. Track economic data with YCharts analytics.

European Union Unemployment Rate: Euro Area 20 data was reported at 6.500 % in Mar 2025. This stayed constant from the previous number of 6.500 % for Feb 2025. European Union Unemployment Rate: Euro Area 20 data is updated monthly, averaging 8.800 % from Jan 2000 (Median) to Mar 2025, with 303 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 12.900 % in Feb 2013 and a record low of 6.100 % in Nov 2024. European Union Unemployment Rate: Euro Area 20 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Eurostat. The data is categorized under Global Database’s European Union – Table EU.G: Eurostat: Unemployment Rate.

'Unemployment by sex and age - monthly data' is a dataset with series on a monthly basis which is, where necessary, adjusted and enriched in various ways, in accordance with the specificities of the indicator. The monthly unemployment indicator is calculated with special methods and periodicity which justify the present page.

Quarterly and annual unemployment is published in the section 'LFS main indicators', which is a collection of the main statistics on the labour market.

This page focuses on the particularities of the estimation of harmonised unemployment (including unemployment rates). Other information on 'LFS main indicators' can be found in the respective ESMS page, see link in section 'related metadata'.

Euro Area - Unemployment rate: From 15 to 24 years was 14.60% in December of 2024, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Euro Area - Unemployment rate: From 15 to 24 years - last updated from the EUROSTAT on September of 2025. Historically, Euro Area - Unemployment rate: From 15 to 24 years reached a record high of 24.50% in December of 2013 and a record low of 14.50% in December of 2023.

The unemployment rate in Euro area stands at 6 percent according to the latest data from . That reading shows a decrease from the level of 6.2 percent in the previous month and a decrease from the level of 6.2 percent in the same month of the previous year. The unemployment rate data in Euro...

Youth Unemployment Rate In the Euro Area remained unchanged at 14 percent in August. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Euro Area Youth Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Euro Area - Unemployment rate: From 25 to 29 years was 8.80% in December of 2024, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Euro Area - Unemployment rate: From 25 to 29 years - last updated from the EUROSTAT on October of 2025. Historically, Euro Area - Unemployment rate: From 25 to 29 years reached a record high of 16.90% in December of 2013 and a record low of 8.80% in December of 2024.

Historical dataset showing Euro Area unemployment rate by year from 1991 to 2024.