Regional unemployment rates used by the Employment Insurance program, by effective date, current month.

As of the third quarter of 2024, the Northeast region of Brazil recorded the largest unemployment rate in the country, with 8.7 percent. By contrast, the lowest unemployment rate in the country could be observed in the South, with four percent.

Graph and download economic data for Unemployment Rate in Midwest Census Region (CMWRUR) from Jan 1976 to Aug 2025 about Midwest Census Region, unemployment, rate, and USA.

In 2024, the highest unemployment rate was registered in the south of Italy. For Campania, Calabria, and Sicily, the shares of citizens without a job ranged from 13 percent to 16 percent. The disparities in unemployment indicators can be observed not only on the regional level but also among genders. In 2024, 17 percent of women in Campania were without a job, whereas the share of unemployed males was less than 15 percent. The region with the highest percentage of employed individuals, both men and women, was Trentino-South Tyrol. Economic crisis in Italy Unemployment is a serious problem in Italy, which began to worsen alongside the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008. The crisis of the Italian labor market reached its peak in 2014, when 12.7 percent of the citizens were without a job. Since 2015, the situation has been improving; the unemployment rate started a steady decrease, which continued in the following years, reaching 6.6 percent in 2024.Unemployment in the EU In November 2024, Italy ranked 13th among the European Union member states with the highest unemployment rate. In Spain, more than eleven percent of all potential employees did not have any occupation.

In 2024, the Italian region that registered the lowest unemployment rate in the whole country was Trentino-South Tyrol. Only 2.2 percent of the male and 2.4 percent of the female workforce did not have a job. Overall, the unemployment rate of women in all Italian regions was higher than the unemployment rate of men. Unemployment in South ItalySince the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008, the south of Italy has been particularly affected by the crisis in the labor market. Despite a steady decrease in the country’s unemployment rate started in 2015, many southern regions are still struggling against the high percentage of the workforce without any occupation. In 2023, Campania, Calabria, and Sicily registered the highest unemployment rates nationwide. EU member states with the highest unemployment rates With roughly 11.5 percent of potential employees without any occupation, Spain was the first European Union member state in terms of the highest unemployment rate in 2024. Italy ranked below the six percent EU average.

Graph and download economic data for Unemployment Rate in South Census Region (CSOUUR) from Jan 1976 to Aug 2025 about South Census Region, unemployment, rate, and USA.

Unemployment by age and sex for UK regions and countries, rolling three-monthly figures published monthly, not seasonally adjusted. Labour Force Survey.

The source for the regional labour market information down to NUTS level 2 is the EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS). This is a quarterly household sample survey conducted in all Member States of the EU, the United Kingdom, EFTA and Candidate countries.

The EU-LFS survey follows the definitions and recommendations of the http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Glossary:International_Labour_Organization_(ILO)">International Labour Organisation (ILO). To achieve further harmonisation, the Member States also adhere to common principles when formulating questionnaires. The LFS' target population is made up of all persons in private households aged 15 and over. For more information see the EU-LFS (Statistics Explained) webpage.

The EU-LFS is designed to give accurate quarterly information at national level as well as annual information at NUTS 2 regional level and the compilation of these figures is well specified in the regulation. Microdata including the NUTS 2 level codes are provided by all the participating countries with a good degree of geographical comparability, which allows the production and dissemination of a complete set of comparable indicators for this territorial level.

At present the transmission of the regional labour market data at NUTS 3 level has no legal basis. However, many countries transmit NUTS 3 figures to Eurostat on a voluntary basis, under the understanding that they are not for publication with such detail, but for aggregation by territorial typologies, i.e. urban-rural, metropolitan, coastal, mountain, borders and island typology. Most of the NUTS 3 data are based on the LFS while some countries transmit data based on registers, administrative data, small area estimation and other reliable sources.

Table depicting the rate of unemployment within the Employment Insurance Regions across Canada.

Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment) and not in the labour force, unemployment rate, participation rate, and employment rate, by province, territory and economic region, last 5 years.

Estimates of the natural rate of unemployment are important in many macroeconomic models used by economists and policy advisors. This paper shows how such estimates might benefit from closer attention to regional developments. Regional business cycles do not move in lock-step, and greater dispersion among regions can affect estimates of the natural rate of unemployment. There is microeconomic evidence that employers are more reluctant to cut wages than they are to raise them. Accordingly, the relationship between wage inflation and vacancies is convex: An increase in vacancies raises wage inflation at an increasing rate. The authors' empirical results are consistent with this and indicate that if all else had remained constant, the reduction in the dispersion of regional unemployment rates between 1982 and 2000 would have meant a two-percentage-point drop in the natural rate of aggregate unemployment.

The unemployment rate in Spain was highest in the southern regions as of the second quarter of 2025. During the period under consideration, the autonomous city of Melilla registered Spain's highest unemployment rate at 25.9 percent. Extremadura, a landlocked southern region bordering Portugal, ranked third at 15.48 percent. On the other hand, the northern regions, such as the Basque Country or Cantabria, had a much lower unemployment rate of less than eight percent.

Graph and download economic data for Unemployment Rate in Northeast Census Region (CNERURN) from Jan 1976 to Aug 2025 about Northeast Census Region, unemployment, rate, and USA.

London had the highest unemployment rate among regions of the United Kingdom in the third quarter of 2025 at *** percent, while for the UK as a whole, the unemployment rate was **** percent. Six other regions also had an unemployment rate higher than the national average, while Northern Ireland had the lowest unemployment rate in this time period, at *** percent. Labor market recovery after COVID-19 After reaching historically low levels of unemployment in 2019, there was a noticeable spike in the UK unemployment rate in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. After peaking at ****percent in late 2020, the unemployment rate declined throughout 2021 and 2022. High levels of job vacancies, resignations, and staff shortages in 2022, were all indicative of a very tight labor market that year, but all these measures have started to point in the direction of a slightly looser labor market. UK's regional economic divide While the North of England has some of the country’s largest cities, the sheer size and economic power of London is much larger than the UK's other urban agglomerations. Partly, due to the size of London, the United Kingdom is one of Europe’s most centralized counties, and there is a clear divide between the economic prospects of north and south England. In 2022, for example, the gross domestic product per head in London was ****** British pounds, far higher than the UK average of *******pounds, and significantly larger than North East England, the region with the lowest GDP per head at *******pounds.

According to projections for 2019 to 2026, the unemployment rate will remain relatively stable in most world regions. In 2025 and 2026, it is estimated to be highest in Central and Western Asia followed by Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean. On the other hand, it was estimated to be lowest in Southeast Asia and Arab States (GCC).

Graph and download economic data for Unemployment Rate in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI (MSA) (MINN427URN) from Jan 1990 to Aug 2025 about Minneapolis, MN, WI, unemployment, rate, and USA.

During the first quarter of 2025, La Réunion and Guyane, two overseas regions, had the highest unemployment rate among all French regions. Over there, the unemployment rate reached **** and **** percent, respectively, compared to around *** percent in Bretagne and Pays de la Loire. Unemployment: an important issue in the economy of France France has been struggling with unemployment since the end of the 2000s and the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis. The unemployment rate in the country reached a record level in 2015 when it amounted to nearly **** percent. However, the situation of employment in France has shown signs of recovery since then. Youth unemployment in the country is finally decreasing; in the meantime, long-term unemployment in France has not yet regained its pre-2008 levels, but stood at *** percent in 2024, a decrease of *** points since the previous year. Being unemployed in France Unemployment does not affect the population in the same way. As displayed by this figure, the northern part of France, which used to be a mining center, was more impacted by the phenomenon. Workers, contrary to the more qualified socio-professional categories, were also more affected by unemployment, as well as women, who are usually more unemployed than men in France, regardless of their nationality.

The statistic shows the unemployment rate in selected world regions between 2019 and 2024. In 2024, the unemployment rate in the Arab World was estimated to have been at 9.46 percent. Unemployment around the globe Following the global financial crisis in 2008, unemployment saw considerable downturns around the globe, most notably in 2009. Unemployment rates, despite experiencing dramatic improvements over the years following the crisis, still have not reached pre-2009 levels for the large majority of countries. The same trend is followed with unemployment among the youth between the ages of 15 and 24, around the world. Many youth experienced layoffs after 2008, mainly because their skills were interchangeable and easily replaceable and as a result, youth unemployment increased, although the situation has improved slightly. The unemployment rate in selected world regions remained relatively stagnant year-over-year from 2012 to 2013, however is expected to improve over the long run based on current employment trends. Economic improvement around the world is primarily evident from growth of real gross domestic product , which has been relatively positive in most countries with the exception of those in the euro area. Growth of real gross domestic product points to economic growth as well as a higher productivity within each country. On the other hand, other indicators of economic health, such as inflation, point to further economic distraught, as inflation is expected to increase globally, most prominently in non-developed countries.

Graph and download economic data for Unemployment Rate in West Census Region (CWSTUR) from Jan 1976 to Aug 2025 about West Census Region, unemployment, rate, and USA.

Globally, the youth unemployment rate (of those aged 15-24 years) fluctuated between 13 and 15.5 percent in each year between 2000 and 2019, before it rose above 17 percent in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Broken down by global region, however, there was much more variation. The Arab World was the region with the highest rate of youth unemployment in each year of the previous two decades, while East Asia and the Pacific generally had the lowest youth unemployment rate. Additionally there was a notable increase in regions with the most advanced economies after 2008, as these were the most severely hit during the Great Recession.