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The unemployment rate stood at 6.1% and the labour underutilisation rate at 10.4%
Monthly Employment and Unemployment Estimates
The unemployment rate stood at 6.1% and the labour underutilisation rate at 10.4% - August 2025
01 October 2025

Summary

July 2025 (definitive estimates):

The unemployment rate stood at 6.0%, down by 0.1 percentage points (pp) from June 2025, by 0.2 pp from April 2025 and by 0.5 pp from July 2024.

The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 10.1%, 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 (1.0 pp).

August 2025 (provisional estimates):

The unemployment rate stood at 6.1%, up from July 2025 (0.1 pp) and down from May 2025 (0.1 pp) and from August 2024 (0.2 pp).

The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 10.4%, up from the previous month (0.3 pp) and down from three months before (0.1 pp) and from the same month of 2024 (0.4 pp).

In August 2025, the employed population (5,265.4 thousand) reached its highest value since February 1998.


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