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  1. Employment rate in Europe in 2024, by country

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    Updated Oct 16, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Employment rate in Europe in 2024, by country [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1195140/employment-rate-in-europe-by-country/
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    Oct 16, 2024
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    Area covered
    Europe
    Description

    The Netherlands had the highest employment rate among European Union countries in 2024, 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 78.4 percent. Italy reported the lowest employment rate in the EU at 62.3 percent.

  2. T

    European Union - Employment rates of recent graduates

    • tradingeconomics.com
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    Updated Aug 1, 2022
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    TRADING ECONOMICS (2022). European Union - Employment rates of recent graduates [Dataset]. https://tradingeconomics.com/european-union/employment-rates-of-recent-graduates-eurostat-data.html
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    json, excel, csv, xmlAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    Aug 1, 2022
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    TRADING ECONOMICS
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Time period covered
    Jan 1, 1976 - Dec 31, 2025
    Area covered
    European Union
    Description

    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 June 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.

  3. Employment rate of graduates in the CEE region 2024

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    Updated Jun 24, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Employment rate of graduates in the CEE region 2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1406115/cee-employment-rate-of-graduates/
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    Jun 24, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    2024
    Area covered
    Central and Eastern Europe, CEE
    Description

    ******** recorded the highest employment rate among Central and Eastern European countries, at over ** percent in 2024. Romania had the lowest employment rate among graduates in the CEE region.

  4. Youth unemployment rate in EU countries November 2024

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    Updated Jan 30, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Youth unemployment rate in EU countries November 2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/266228/youth-unemployment-rate-in-eu-countries/
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    Jan 30, 2025
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    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    Nov 2024
    Area covered
    EU, European Union
    Description

    The statistic shows the seasonally adjusted youth unemployment rate in EU member states as of November 2024. The source defines youth unemployment as unemployment of those younger than 25 years. In November 2024, the seasonally adjusted youth unemployment rate in Spain was at 26.6 percent. Youth unemployment rate in EU member states Unemployment is a crucial economic factor for a country; youth unemployment is often examined separately because it tends to be higher than unemployment in older age groups. It comprises the unemployment figures of a country’s labor force aged 15 to 24 years old (i.e. the earliest point at which mandatory school education ends). Typically, teenagers and those in their twenties who are fresh out of education do not find jobs right away, especially if the country’s economy is experiencing difficulties, as can be seen above. Additionally, it also tends to be higher in emerging markets than in industrialized nations. Worldwide, youth unemployment figures have not changed significantly over the last decade, nor are they expected to improve in the next few years. Youth unemployment is most prevalent in the Middle East and North Africa, even though these regions report high unemployment figures regardless (Zimbabwe and Turkmenistan are among the countries with the highest unemployment rates in the world, for example), and are also highly populated areas with a rather weak infrastructure, compared to industrialized regions. In the European Union and the euro area, unemployment in general has been on the rise since 2008, which is due to the economic crisis which caused bankruptcy and financial trouble for many employers, and thus led to considerable job loss, less job offerings, and consequently, to a rise of the unemployment rate. Older workers are struggling to find new jobs despite their experience, and young graduates are struggling to find new jobs, because they have none. All in all, the number of unemployed persons worldwide is projected to rise, this is not down to the economic crisis alone, but also the industrial automation of processes previously performed by workers, as well as rising population figures.

  5. Unemployment rate in EU countries November 2024

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    Updated Jan 29, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Unemployment rate in EU countries November 2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/268830/unemployment-rate-in-eu-countries/
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    Jan 29, 2025
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    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    Nov 2024
    Area covered
    EU, European Union
    Description

    The statistic reflects the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in member states of the European Union in November 2024. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Spain in November 2024 was 11.2 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 job seekers 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.

  6. Unemployment rate in the EU 2025, by country

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    Updated May 27, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Unemployment rate in the EU 2025, by country [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1115276/unemployment-in-europe-by-country/
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    May 27, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    Mar 2025
    Area covered
    European Union, Europe
    Description

    Among European Union countries in March 2025, Spain had the highest unemployment rate at 10.9 percent, followed by Finland at 9.4 percent. By contrast, Czechia has the lowest unemployment rate in Europe, at 2.6 percent. The overall rate of unemployment in the European Union was 5.8 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.

  7. Monthly labour participation and unemployment

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    • ckan.mobidatalab.eu
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    Updated May 15, 2025
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    Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (2025). Monthly labour participation and unemployment [Dataset]. https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/figures/detail/80590eng
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    Dataset updated
    May 15, 2025
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    Statistics Netherlands
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    Authors
    Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    The Netherlands
    Description

    This table contains monthly, quarterly and yearly figures on the labour participation and unemployment in the Netherlands. The population of 15 to 75 years old (excluding the institutionalized population) is divided into the employed, the unemployed and the people who are not in in the labour force. The different groups are further broken down by sex and age. Next to the original monthly figures on the labour force you can also find monthly figures that are seasonally adjusted.

    Data available from: January 2003

    Status of the figures: The figures in this table are final.

    Changes as of 15 May 2025: The figures for April 2025 have been added

    When will new figures be published? New figures on the most recent month are published monthly, in the third week of the month.

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    Global Interview Coaching Service Market Research Report: By Service Type...

    • wiseguyreports.com
    Updated Jul 23, 2024
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    wWiseguy Research Consultants Pvt Ltd (2024). Global Interview Coaching Service Market Research Report: By Service Type (Group Interview Coaching, One-on-One Interview Coaching, Mock Interviews), By Target Audience (Fresh Graduates, Mid-Career Professionals, Senior Level Executives), By Interview Format (Behavioral, Technical, Case Studies, Panel), By Coaching Focus (Answer Development, Communication Skills, Confidence Building, Behavioral Analysis), By Industry Verticals (Technology, Healthcare, Finance, Consulting) and By Regional (North America, Europe, South America, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa) - Forecast to 2032. [Dataset]. https://www.wiseguyreports.com/reports/interview-coaching-service-market
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    Jul 23, 2024
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    wWiseguy Research Consultants Pvt Ltd
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    https://www.wiseguyreports.com/pages/privacy-policyhttps://www.wiseguyreports.com/pages/privacy-policy

    Time period covered
    Jan 7, 2024
    Area covered
    Global
    Description
    BASE YEAR2024
    HISTORICAL DATA2019 - 2024
    REPORT COVERAGERevenue Forecast, Competitive Landscape, Growth Factors, and Trends
    MARKET SIZE 20231.96(USD Billion)
    MARKET SIZE 20242.14(USD Billion)
    MARKET SIZE 20324.5(USD Billion)
    SEGMENTS COVEREDService Type ,Target Audience ,Interview Format ,Coaching Focus ,Industry Verticals ,Regional
    COUNTRIES COVEREDNorth America, Europe, APAC, South America, MEA
    KEY MARKET DYNAMICSIncreased job competition Growing awareness of interview preparation importance Shift towards virtual interviews Rise in online job boards and recruitment platforms Demand for personalized coaching
    MARKET FORECAST UNITSUSD Billion
    KEY COMPANIES PROFILEDThe Interview Guys ,Resume.io ,CareerArc ,Land8 ,Big Interview ,Prepfully ,Interview Coaching Services (ICS) ,MockInterview.io ,Interview Success Formula ,TopInterview ,YouScience ,Careercup ,The Muse ,Career Sherpa ,Career Contessa
    MARKET FORECAST PERIOD2024 - 2032
    KEY MARKET OPPORTUNITIESAIpowered platforms Virtual and remote coaching Niche market expansion Personalized coaching solutions Expanded corporate training
    COMPOUND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE (CAGR) 9.7% (2024 - 2032)
  9. General practitioners in the UK 2000-2023

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    Updated Feb 24, 2025
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    Statista (2025). General practitioners in the UK 2000-2023 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/462235/general-practitioners-employment-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/
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    Feb 24, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    United Kingdom
    Description

    The United Kingdom has seen a significant increase in the number of general practitioners (GPs) over the past two decades, reaching nearly 54,000 in 2023. This figure represents a slight decrease from the previous year, which marked the highest number of GPs in the country since 2000. Gender dynamics in general practice A notable trend in the UK's GP workforce is the growing representation of female doctors. In NHS England, female GPs outnumbered their male counterparts, with over 20,000 female GPs compared to approximately 17,800 male GPs as of December 2024. This shift is not limited to England, as Scotland and Wales have also seen a rise in female GPs. In Scotland, there were about 3,200 female GPs compared to 1,900 male GPs in 2023, while Wales reported 1,334 female GPs and 996 male GPs in 2024. Comparison with other European countries While the UK has made strides in increasing its GP workforce, it still ranks third in Europe in terms of the number of practicing GPs. France leads with 65,469 GPs, followed by Germany with 60,601 in 2021. It's worth noting that the UK experienced a spike in GP numbers in 2020, likely due to emergency measures implemented during the early stages of the pandemic, including the introduction of a temporary emergency register and earlier registration of graduates.

  10. Annual average unemployment rate in Germany 2005-2025

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    Updated Feb 11, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Annual average unemployment rate in Germany 2005-2025 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/227005/unemployment-rate-in-germany/
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    Feb 11, 2025
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    Area covered
    Germany
    Description

    The average unemployment rate was six percent in Germany in 2024. Since 2005, the rate of unemployment has generally been declining, though a slight increase was evident in recent years. Unemployment in Germany and comparison with other countries Germany has a comparatively low unemployment rate compared to its European neighbors, and they are expected to stay at around three percent over the next few years. This is a result of the damage the economy suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the lockdown, most businesses were closed, and many companies lost revenue meaning employees were let go. It is also possible that higher unemployment figures will continue into later years because of inflation and rising energy prices. There is also a slightly higher unemployment rate among men than there is among women. Social support Social support is money paid out to those who are unable to work for some reason, its purpose is to protect those who are most vulnerable. The status of being unemployed is defined as when an employed person is laid off, fired, or quits his work and is still looking for a job, this is what qualifies someone to receive a citizens allowance (Bürgergeld) in Germany. The payments are only made if you are unemployed and worked for the last 12 months. Otherwise, benefits are received in the form of Arbeitslosengeld II, also called Hartz IV, which distributes social payments to people without an income who cannot work to make a living. Since January 2023 though, Arbeitlosengeld has been replaced by Bürgergeld, since this is a new transition, it is still possible that people will still refer to the benefits as Arbeitlosengeld or Hartz IV.

  11. Unemployment rate of the UK 2000-2025

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    Updated Jun 10, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Unemployment rate of the UK 2000-2025 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/279898/unemployment-rate-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/
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    Dataset updated
    Jun 10, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    Jan 2000 - Apr 2025
    Area covered
    United Kingdom
    Description

    The unemployment rate of the United Kingdom was 4.6 percent in April 2025, an increase from the previous month. Before the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK had relatively low levels of unemployment, comparable with the mid-1970s. Between January 2000 and the most recent month, unemployment was highest in November 2011 when the unemployment rate hit 8.5 percent. Will unemployment continue to rise in 2025? Although low by historic standards, there has been a noticeable uptick in the UK's unemployment rate, with other labor market indicators also pointing to further loosening. In December 2024, the number of job vacancies in the UK, fell to its lowest level since May 2021, while payrolled employment declined by 47,000 compared with November. Whether this is a continuation of a broader cooling of the labor market since 2022, or a reaction to more recent economic developments, such as upcoming tax rises for employers, remains to be seen. Forecasts made in late 2024 suggest that the unemployment rate will remain relatively stable in 2025, averaging out at 4.1 percent, and falling again to four percent in 2026.
    Demographics of the unemployed As of the third quarter of 2024, the unemployment rate for men was slightly higher than that of women, at 4.4 percent, compared to 4.1 percent. During the financial crisis at the end of the 2000s, the unemployment rate for women peaked at a quarterly rate of 7.7 percent, whereas for men, the rate was 9.1 percent. Unemployment is also heavily associated with age, and young people in general are far more vulnerable to unemployment than older age groups. In late 2011, for example, the unemployment rate for those aged between 16 and 24 reached 22.3 percent, compared with 8.2 percent for people aged 25 to 34, while older age groups had even lower peaks during this time.

  12. Unemployment rate in Spain 2005-2024

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    Updated Jan 22, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Unemployment rate in Spain 2005-2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/453410/unemployment-rate-in-spain/
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    Jan 22, 2025
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    Area covered
    Spain
    Description

    At a rate of 11.27 percent in the second quarter of 2024, Spain was one of the countries with the highest unemployment rates in the European Union. As of the third quarter of 2005, the unemployment rate in Spain was at roughly 8.4 percent, the lowest recorded in the period under consideration. However, a few years later, by the third quarter of 2009, it had more than doubled. It was not until 2016 that Spain witnessed a downward trend in its unemployment rate. Unemployment in Spain The age group with the highest distribution of unemployment is that of teenagers (16 to 19 years). Recent quarterly unemployment figures in Spain show that unemployment peaked in the first quarter of 2013, whereby there were approximately 6.28 million inhabitants unemployed, by the same quarter in 2024, unemployment had decreased by over 3 million. This trend is also reflected in the number of people in employment in Spain. The situation in the European Union Spain was the European country with the highest unemployment rate in August 2023, with nearly 12 percent of the labor force out of work. This figure is considerably higher than that of the rest of the European Union, which had an average unemployment rate of six percent as of the same period. In terms of youth unemployment, figures in the European Union reached 14 percent in August 2023, although the numbers varies greatly across the countries. While Greece and Spain topped the list at a youth unemployment rate of 23.5 and 26.8 percent, Germany was at the bottom of the list with just 5.7 percent of its youth out of a job.

  13. Difficulty in finding talented workers for open positions Europe 2024-2025

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    Updated May 28, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Difficulty in finding talented workers for open positions Europe 2024-2025 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1445495/employers-self-reporting-talent-scarcity-europe/
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    May 28, 2025
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    Area covered
    Europe
    Description

    Across Europe, many employers have reported difficulties in finding talented employees to fill open positions in recent years. Labor and skills shortages have been one of the most persistent economic topics in the continent during the 2020s, with the job vacancy rate rising sharply in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Germany was the European country where employers reported the most that they struggle to find talented candidates for positions in both 2024 and 2025. In Greece, Portugal, Ireland, France, and the UK, four out of every five employers said they cannot find skilled workers for positions in 2025. On average, the shortage of talented workers decreased globally from 75 to 74 percent, with larger declines seen in countries such as Belgium (two percent decline), Hungary (no change), and Finland (nine percent decline). Slovakia, on the other hand, saw a 10 percent decrease compared with 2024.

  14. Unemployment rate Ireland 2000-2025

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    Updated Jun 17, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Unemployment rate Ireland 2000-2025 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/936027/monthly-unemployment-rate-ireland/
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    Jun 17, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    Jan 2000 - May 2025
    Area covered
    Ireland, Ireland
    Description

    The unemployment rate in the Republic of Ireland was four percent in May 2025, compared with 4.1 percent in the previous month. Between 2000 and 2007, Ireland's unemployment rate was broadly stable, fluctuating between 3.9 and 5.4 percent. Following the global financial crisis, however, Ireland's unemployment rate increased dramatically, eventually peaking at 16.1 percent in early 2012. For the next eight years, unemployment gradually fell, eventually reaching pre-crisis levels in the late 2010s. This was, however, followed by an uptick in unemployment due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which peaked at 7.6 percent in March 2021, before falling to pre-pandemic levels by February 2022. Risk and rewards of the Irish economic model After being quite hard hit by the global financial crisis of 2008, Ireland staged a strong recovery in the mid-2010s, and was frequently the EU's fastest growing economy between 2014 and 2022. This growth, was however, fueled in part by multinational companies, such as Apple, basing their European operations in the country. As of 2022, an adjusted measure of gross national income valued Ireland's economy at around 273 billion Euros, rather than the 506 billion Euros GDP figure. Ireland's close economic relationship with American tech companies also leaves it vulnerable to the political weather in the United States. It is currently unclear, for example, what the recent return to power of Donald Trump as President in early 2025 could mean for the Irish economy going forward. Ireland's labor market As of the third quarter of 2024, there were approximately 2.79 million people employed in the Republic of Ireland. Of these workers, 379,200 people worked in Ireland's human health and social work sector, the most of any industry at that time. Other sectors with high employment levels include wholesale and retail trade, at 323,500 people, and education, at 228,200 people. While unemployment still remains quite low, some indicators suggest a moderate loosening of the labor market. Job vacancies, are slightly down from their peak of 35,300 in Q2 2022, amounting to 28,900 in Q3 2024, while youth unemployment has begun to tick upwards, and was 11.9 percent in January 2025.

  15. Average annual wages in selected countries in Europe 2023

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    Updated Jun 20, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Average annual wages in selected countries in Europe 2023 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/557777/average-annual-salaries-in-europe/
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    Jun 20, 2025
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    Time period covered
    2023
    Area covered
    Europe
    Description

    Luxembourg had the highest average annual wage in Europe in 2023, at approximately ****** U.S. dollars when adjusting for purchasing power parity (PPP). Greece, which had an average annual salary of less than ****** U.S dollars a year, had the lowest among the countries provided in this statistic.

  16. Number of job vacancies in the UK 2001-2025

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    Updated Jun 10, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Number of job vacancies in the UK 2001-2025 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/283771/monthly-job-vacancies-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/
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    Jun 10, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    Jun 2001 - May 2025
    Area covered
    United Kingdom
    Description

    In the three months to May 2025, there were approximately 736,000 job vacancies in the UK, the fewest number of job vacancies since April 2021. The number of job vacancies in the United Kingdom reached a record high of 1.3 million in the three months to May 2022, with the number of vacancies steadily falling since then. During the provided time period, the number of job vacancies fell to its lowest levels in the months leading to June 2020, at just 328,000, at the height of COVID-19 restrictions. Tight labor market beginning to loosen After weathering the economic storm of COVID-19, the UK labor market has been reasonably healthy since 2021. The unemployment rate, which reached 5.1 percent in late 2020, declined in the following months, to a post-pandemic low of 3.5 percent by August 2022. Since that point, however, the unemployment rate has crept up, and was 4.4 percent in November 2024. Resignations have also started to decline, after reaching a peak of 442,000 in the second quarter of 2022, there were just 181,000 in the third quarter of 2024. Which industries are experiencing staff shortages? The percentage of businesses reporting a staff shortage in the UK reached 15.7 percent in September 2022, before falling to just 9.7 percent by October 2023, another indication of a loosening labor market. According to data from that month, approximately 1 in 4 UK businesses in the accommodation and food services had a shortage of staff, the highest of any sector, followed by human health and social work at 18.4 percent, and manufacturing at 17.6 percent. Many of the recent struggles of Britain's National Health Service are directly related to staff shortages, with the public seeing a shortage of doctors and nurses, and overworked staff as some of the main problems facing the NHS.

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Employment rate in Europe in 2024, by country

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Dataset updated
Oct 16, 2024
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Area covered
Europe
Description

The Netherlands had the highest employment rate among European Union countries in 2024, 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 78.4 percent. Italy reported the lowest employment rate in the EU at 62.3 percent.

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