January 2025 (definitive estimates):
• The unemployment rate stood at 6.3%, down 0.1 percentage points (pp) from December 2024, 0.2 pp from October and 0.1 pp from January 2024.
• The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 10.8%, the same value as in the previous month, having decreased from three months earlier (0.2 pp) and from the same month of 2024 (0.6 pp).
February 2025 (provisional estimates):
• The unemployment rate stood at 6.4%, up from January 2025 (0.1 pp), but down from November (0.2 pp) and from February 2024 (0.1 pp).
• The labour underutilisation rate stood at 10.9%, up from the previous month (0.1 pp), having decreased from three months before (0.1 pp) and from the same month of 2024 (0.4 pp).
• In February 2025, the employed population (5,163.5 thousand) reached the highest value since February 1998.