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The unemployment rate stood at 6.3% and the labour underutilisation rate at 10.5%
Monthly Employment and Unemployment Estimates
The unemployment rate stood at 6.3% and the labour underutilisation rate at 10.5% - May 2025
01 July 2025

Summary

April 2025 (definitive estimates):

The unemployment rate stood at 6.3%, down by 0.1 percentage points (pp) from the previous month, from three months before and a year earlier.

The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 10.6%, down from the three periods under comparison: previous month and from three months earlier (0.3 pp in both) and from the same month of 2024 (0.4 pp).

In April 2025, the active population (5,568.4 thousand) reached the highest value since February 1998.

May 2025 (provisional estimates):

The unemployment rate stood at 6.3%, unchanged from April 2025, but down from February 2025 and from May 2024 (0.1 pp in both).

The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 10.5%, down from the previous month (0.1 pp), from three months before and from the same month of 2024 (0.4 pp in both).


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