July 2023 (definitive estimates):
• The active population (5,279.0 thousand people) increased from June (0.2%) and April 2023 (0.1%) and from July 2022 (1.7%) (previous month, three months before and a year earlier, respectively).
• Similarly, the employed population (4,945.1 thousand) also increased from the three periods under comparison: 0.2%, 0.3% and 1.3%, respectively.
• The unemployed population (333.9 thousand) remained practically unchanged from the previous month, having decreased from three months before (3.3%) and increased from a year earlier (7.9%).
• The unemployment rate stood at 6.3%, the same value as in the previous month, down 0.2 percentage points (pp) from three months before and up 0.3 pp from a year earlier.
• The inactive population (2,410.8 thousand) decreased from the three periods under comparison: 0.4%, 0.1% and 2.4%, respectively.
• The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 11.6%, down 0.1 pp from the previous month and 0.2 pp from three months before and remaining unchanged from one year earlier.
August 2023 (provisional estimates):
• The active population (5,274.6 thousand) decreased 0.1% both from July and May 2023, having increased by 1.5% from August 2022.
• The employed population (4,948.0 thousand) increased by 0.1% both from the previous month and from three months before and by 1.3% from a year earlier.
• The unemployed population (326.7 thousand) decreased from July (2.2%) and May 2023 (3.4%), having increased from August 2022 (3.9%).
• Similarly, the unemployment rate, that stood at 6.2%, has also registered a decrease from July and May 2023 (0.1 pp and 0.2 pp, respectively) and an increase from August 2022 (0.2 pp).
• The inactive population (2,414.8 thousand) increased from the previous month (0.2%) and from three months before (0.3%), having decreased from one year earlier (1.9 pp).
• The labour underutilisation rate stood at 11.5%, down 0.1 pp from the previous month and 0.2 pp from three months before, having remained unchanged from the same month of 2022.
