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The unemployment rate stood at 5.8% and the labour underutilisation rate at 10.0%
Monthly Employment and Unemployment Estimates
The unemployment rate stood at 5.8% and the labour underutilisation rate at 10.0% - July 2025
29 August 2025

Summary

June 2025 (definitive estimates):

The unemployment rate stood at 6.1%, down by 0.1 percentage points (pp) from May 2025, by 0.2 pp from March 2025 and by 0.4 pp from June 2024.

The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 10.3%, down from the three periods under comparison: previous month (0.2 pp), three months earlier (0.4 pp) and from the same month of 2024 (0.7 pp).

July 2025 (provisional estimates):

The unemployment rate stood at 5.8%, down from the three periods under comparison: June 2025 (0.3 pp), April 2025 (0.4 pp) and July 2024 (0.7 pp).

The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 10.0%, down from the previous month (0.3 pp), from three months before (0.5 pp) and from the same month of 2024 (1.1 pp).

In July 2025, the employed population (5,260.4 thousand) reached the highest value since February 1998.


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