June 2023 (definitive estimates):
• The active population (5,268.7 thousand people) decreased from March and May 2023 (0.2%, relatively to both months) and increased from June 2022 (1.7%).
• The employed population (4,935.4 thousand) decreased from the previous month, having increased compared to three months before (0.3%) and with the same month of the previous year (1.3%).
• The unemployed population (333.3 thousand) decreased by 1.4% from May 2023 and by 7.5% from March 2023 and increased by 7.7% from June from a year earlier.
• The unemployment rate stood at 6.3%, down 0.1 percentage points (pp) from the previous month, down 0.5 pp from three months before and up 0.3 pp from a year earlier.
• The inactive population (2,419.5 thousand) increase 0.5% from both March and May 2023, having decrease by 2.5% from June 2022.
• The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 11.7%, down 0.1 pp from the previous month, down 0.3 pp from three months before and up 0.1 pp from one year earlier.
June 2023 (provisional estimates):
• The active population (5,262.6 thousand) decreased from the previous month (0.1%), from April 2023 (0.2%), having increased by 1.4% from July 2022.
• The employed population (4,932.7 thousand) decreased from the previous month (0.1%), having increased from three months before (0.1%) and the same month of the previous year (1.0%).
• The unemployed population (329.9 thousand) decreased from the previous month (1.0%) and from three months before (4.5%), having increased from a year earlier (6.4%).
• The unemployment rate stood at 6.3%, remaining unchanged from June 2023, down from April of the same year (0.2 pp), but up from July 2022 (0.3 pp).
• The inactive population (2,427.3 thousand) increased from the previous month (0.3%) and from three months before (0.6%), having decreased from one year earlier (1.7 pp).
• The labour underutilisation rate stood at 11.6%, down 0.1 pp from the previous month, down 0.4 pp from three months before, having remained unchanged from the same month of 2022.
