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The unemployment rate stood at 6.3% and the labour underutilisation rate at 10.6%
Monthly Employment and Unemployment Estimates
The unemployment rate stood at 6.3% and the labour underutilisation rate at 10.6% - April 2025
02 June 2025

Summary

March 2025 (definitive estimates):

The unemployment rate stood at 6.4%, the same value as in February 2025, but down from December and March 2024 (0.1 percentage points (pp) in both).

The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 10.8%, the same value as in the previous month, having decreased from three months earlier (0.1 pp) and from the same month of 2024 (0.4 pp).

April 2025 (provisional estimates):

The unemployment rate stood at 6.3%, down by 0,1 pp from the three periods under comparison: the previous month, three months before and the same month of 2024.

The labour underutilisation rate stood at 10.6%, down from the previous month and from three months before (0.2 pp in both) and down from the same month of 2024 (0.4 pp).

In April 2025, the active population (5,565.4 thousand) reached the highest value since February 1998.


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